Yesterday, I passed a test, I think. First, I managed to lock myself out of the library at which I am the sole employee. Specifically, I left the key in my car, which my husband borrowed and then failed to return at the expected time. When I went to get the spare key, the keeper [...]
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Tonight we foraged in our yard. At least partly. The menu this evening was quiche made with dandelion greens, fresh basil that has been growing in a pot in our living room since February, and eggs from our chickens. Thanks are due to one of my friends, who recommended blanching the leaves. Last time I [...]
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Feeling contrary and sick, I don’t want to talk about the election or Osama bin Laden today, so I’m going to talk about food instead. Here is my strategy for using convenience foods that don’t have extra ingredients to put dinner on the table in under half an hour. These are not gourmet meals, but [...]
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Today’s Daily Prompt was: “Describe the unhealthiest meal you’ve ever eaten. How did you feel afterwards?“ I probably can’t dredge up the True Answer to this question, being the one that could be verified by friends and family. It probably includes nachos, though. I will, nonetheless, tell you about my favourite unhealthy meal, because it [...]
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I have been teaching my children to cook since they were very small. It is one of the greatest gifts I can imagine giving them, since it is a skill that leads to cheaper food, more control over their preferences, and healthier eating. Even if they cook something high in fat and sugar, it won’t [...]
Filed under: Day-to-Day, Recipes | Tagged: children, food, frugal, PostADay2011, self-sufficiency | 3 Comments »
You may have caught the quick pass on twitter/fb: My youngest child turned four today. We had a good time, low key. He got a new Wii game and spent a larger time than normal playing computer games. (Dora Saves the Crystal Kingdom!) and stayed up way too late reading. In the grand tradition of [...]
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Some of my more unusual preferences are for the very salty foods of the sea. And brown rice miso porridge with wakame. For breakfast.
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My daughter and I were working on her social studies project last night about technologies that are important to her. She had to have 10 pictures to paste onto a piece of paper, and to be able to talk about why she picked them. She quite quickly looked around our house and recognized that pretty [...]
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I was having a hard day of writing earlier in the week, and I wrote (in an early draft of one of my posts), “It’s OK. If this doesn’t work out, I can just post a picture of a cheese tray or something.” Then I realised that I do, in fact, have a recent picture [...]
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The Elitism Question
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Michael Pollan’s advice on what to eat from the New York Times, which has turned out to be surprisingly controversial. Real food? Everybody knows that’s just for the wealthy elite… Berkshire pork and morels at $180 an ounce, right? Something like that… certainly no relevance to the average [...]
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