The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
Posted in Ramblings on Nov 29th, 2008
Today is a wonderful day. My week without wheat has come to an end. Even better, the rotten virus that featured for most of the week has also finally departed. The virus infected me, not the computer but has been the cause of my uncharacteristic absence from blogging. Most vexatious.
Things I noticed when not eating [...]
For no particular reason, I have decided to forgo wheat for one week. I decided this yesterdy shortly after eating a chocolate croissant from the Convent bakery in Abbotsford. Thus, I have been a wheat free person for almost 36 hours now. When I say no particular reason, I am not being strictly accurate. One [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Nov 14th, 2008
Supporting local farmers is something I feel strongly about. Eating locally, supporting the broader community in which you live, educating your children about real food, reducing packaging, reducing transport miles, encouraging the reintroduction of sustainable farming methods, giving the finger to multinational supermarkets who treat farmers unfairly. So many positives can be contributed to by [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Nov 2nd, 2008
I’ve been tagged by DocWitch of Dark Side of the Broom for a green meme (1). It’s a good one that requires some introspection and may inspire positive change in both readers and writers. Or not. I like the hint of possibility.
Lets wrap up the administrative side of things, here are The Guidelines:
1. Link to [...]
The official verdict is…I am an idiot.
I am embarrassed it took me so long to work this out. Honestly. It’s so obvious. I can’t understand why I’ve been doing it back to front for so many years and hadn’t noticed.
Between the market and the garden, this week I have in stock;
bok choy
broad beans
sweet potato
royal blue [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Oct 31st, 2008
Traditionally, I have been a devoted meal planner. Since I have been working harder to eat increasingly seasonally and locally, I’ve fond this harder to do. My meal planning method was generally to flick through my recipes and see what took my fancy for the coming week. The problem with this method is that it [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Oct 30th, 2008
I received a wonderful little envelope in the mail today.
Many thanks to the Jaywalker of Belgian Waffle. It was most appreciated. Eddie decided I could eat it by myself.
In other random news, I have appeared over at I Op Therefore I am, thanks for the invite Amelia. So if you want to see my new [...]
Posted in Ramblings on Oct 21st, 2008
It rained tonight!
Posted in Ramblings on Oct 11th, 2008
Today, the Kitchen Playground is one year and one day old. This will be my 368th post. Which means I talk too much with my fingers as well as with my mouth.
photo by existentist, some rights reserved
Posted in Ramblings on Sep 25th, 2008
Hello to the pathetic scumbag who smashed open our car window last night and stole the Bread Winner’s laptop bag. Thanks so much for creating extra work for him and for totally destroying my Friday. We’ll thoroughly enjoy forking out the excess on our insurance. Really we will. May your genitals drop off in a [...]
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The culinary adventures of a real food fanatic
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