Container Gardening
June 9, 2010 · 8 comments
Some of us don’t have room for a garden, but almost everyone has room for a container or two. I decided I should grow some things in containers to prove to myself that it’s worthwhile. I have three containers planted, and am already enjoying the results. A salad is a joyful thing, especially when it’s [...]
Categories: gardening, rant
Tagged: gardening, rant
Memorial Day
May 31, 2010 · Leave a comment
As always on Memorial Day, I remember fallen friends and comrades, especially my best buddy, Brian John Bennett, who died saving his squad.
Fresh Egg
May 14, 2010 · 13 comments
After cracking open this first egg from The Ladies of Stumptown Savoury I am redefining “fresh” as it applies to eggs. Note how thick the inner white is, how the yolk is tall and well-defined. This egg was opened less than 2 hours after it was laid. (The Ladies were too busy to pose for [...]
Categories: eggs, rant, urban farming
Tagged: eggs, rant, urban farming
Organics–Worth the Price?
May 5, 2010 · 3 comments
A former comrade-in-arms messaged me recently because his daughter had decided to go all organic and he wondered whether it was worth the extra cost. Good question. Let’s start with that extra cost issue, because it’s important. The first thing to understand is that growing things organically can be more expensive because there is more [...]
Personal Update
April 24, 2010 · 5 comments
I haven’t managed a new post for awhile so I thought I would share a few notes about what’s happening in my life at the moment. Maybe you’ll accept this as a valid excuse. I hope so. Firstly, my teaching load is heavier. Most weeks I’m teaching three classes and some weeks there are one [...]
Stumptown Savoury on Savor Portland
April 6, 2010 · Leave a comment
Today, live on pdx.fm at 4:00pm Pacific, listen to me chat with Devlyn and rant on savor portland. Or wait and download the podcast for free on iTunes. Either way, it’s something you won’t want to miss. Episode 9. Sure to be a classic.
Strawberry Macarons
March 23, 2010 · 17 comments
Over the past year I’ve seen a lot of posts about macarons filled with spectacular and stylish photographs and gushy praise for the cookies. I assumed that any cookie with stores dedicated to it and books written about it must be at least as special as the chocolate chip cookie, so I decided I, too, would take [...]
Categories: baking, dairy-free, dessert, gluten-free, rant, technique, vegetarian
Tagged: baking, cookies, dairy-free, dessert, gluten-free, mother recipe, rant, technique, vegetarian
The Way to Eat
March 2, 2010 · 4 comments
I was out eating breakfast the other day and saw something important, I think. All around me were my fellow Americans, busily eating and reading newspapers or working on computers. Virtually everyone was alone, no matter how many people were sitting at the same table. They were all eating rapidly while doing some busy-ness necessary [...]
Why I Cook
February 21, 2010 · 7 comments
Michael Ruhlman, as he so often does, got me thinking with his recent post, Why I Cook; he encouraged those of us who blog to write about why we cook. After thinking for awhile, I realized that I cook for some rather specific reasons. I cook because I am fascinated by the seemingly-magical transformation of simple things; [...]
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