Parenthetical

Warm weather, Shakespeare on the Common… picnic time! I adore picnics. The trouble with them, though, is that everything has to be cold, and in my fridge I had primarily zucchini and eggplant — traditionally warm foods. Internets to the rescue! Inspired by this recipe from the NYTimes and this one from A Sweet Life, [...]

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…and am somewhat sorry. One of my Summer Projects is to get a handle on vegan and/or gluten-free baking. (Yes, I realize that summer in Boston is perhaps not the ideal time to turn on the oven ever, let alone on a weekly basis, but this is when I have free time. Insert inappropriate joke [...]

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This one isn’t GF (sorry, S!), nor is it vegan, but it is dairy-free. It also isn’t very good, so you aren’t missing out. I started with Heather Van Vorous’s Lemon-Glazed Sticky Bread recipe from Eating for IBS, and then heavily adapted it for my own purposes such that it is now an entirely new [...]

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Thanks to some health problems and the end of the school year, I’ve been a posting slacker. I promise to clean up the backlog soon, etc. etc. Anyway, my newly restricted diet plus S’s own dietary restrictions have led to some bold experiments in gluten-free, animal-fat-free (vegan with egg whites) cooking. Some have been successful. [...]

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I don’t have time to read and review enough old-school apocalypse books to fill up a whole month, so please enjoy some pre-apocalyptic technology: Window Farms: “hydroponic edible gardens for urban windows” After peak oil, when the large-scale food distribution system breaks down, we can dig a bunch of plastic water bottles out of the [...]

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1. No Brownies at Bake Sales, but Doritos May Be O.K. raised my blood pressure way more than a whole plate of brownies (mmm… brownies): Nine months after effectively banning most fund-raising food sales in city schools, a city panel will vote Wednesday on an amended regulation that will allow student groups to sell items [...]

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(The idea of posting these “recipes” is to give an idea of my thought process as I cook. Some of you seem interested when you’re in my kitchen watching, so maybe you’ll be interested if I write about it? It amuses me, anyway. If I were less lazy and a better photographer, I’d take pictures.) [...]

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My first attempt at a gluten-free pie was a fine success, if I do say so myself. I used the Flaky Pastry recipe from Rebecca Reilly’s Gluten-Free Baking, more or less: 1.5 c flour mix* 3 T sweet rice flour 2 tsp. sugar 1/4 tsp. salt 9 T cold butter, cut into cubes 1 large [...]

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The last post reminded me that I never posted my total winter stores for this year!* The list was made in mid-November, so some of this stuff is gone (though less than you might expect). Behold: Pre-Made Meals 3 servings + 1 large IF** tomato, kale, & white bean soup w/ rosemary 1 IF + [...]

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A few weeks ago I read an article about South River Miso, “the only unpasteurized, certified organic miso that is entirely handcrafted in the centuries-old Japanese farmhouse tradition,” according to the jar — and it just happens to be made 100 miles away in Conway, MA. I immediately informed Sherman Market, the little market just [...]

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