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It’s Perspective
My friend is home from the Peace Corps for a short while. She’s serving in Moldova (look it up). Amidst her stories of the confusion and growing pains of a young nation trying to distance itself from the not-that-past-tense specter of the Soviet Republic while being an oft-conquored bit of land (about the size of…
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Quick note
It’s been a few days since my last post, but I’ve had good reason! We’ve been doing a lot of work on our house (like replacing the stairs to the second floor – which freaked out the dogs – and putting in a new counter top / butcher block), so I have actually been eating…
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Dinner tonight
Dinner tonight: simple summer pasta. Egg noodles with summer squash, a carrot, and broccoli. While the pasta was cooking, I heated up olive oil and then quickly cooked the veggies over medium high heat. Lots of flavor, lots of crunch!
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Date Night
We love to go on dates. Just taking little slices of life to concentrate just on each other and have some shared experiences. Sometimes they’re pretty simple, dinner and drinks, and sometimes they’re a bit more elaborate. They usually involve food. Friday (and Saturday) we had a more elaborate date. The only really elaborate part…
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The Best Part
The best part of volunteering, besides the feel good aspect of helping out, is the snacks. I think we all know this. As an omnivore, man oh man, the world is your oyster. When you have food limitations (and with a natural and unfortunate allergy to walnuts, I actually have a real food limitation —…
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Healthy Food is a Right, Not a Privilege
I just listened to a podcast from the American Museum of Natural History (http://www.amnh.org/science podcasts are available at the bottom of the page, and in iTunes). The speaker was Michael Pollan (check out his bibliography!) and he spoke about why corporate food production isn’t sustainable (for example, if everyone in America wants to eat 8…
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Pickle Problem
At the store today, we were in the pickle area, because Bob was looking for banana peppers, and I got a hankering for some bread and butter slices. Every single jar, bar none, had high fructose corn syrup as the second ingredient (after cukes). I was so disappointed. As we know from the Centers for…
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Canticle Farm
This morning I picked up my nephew (who is about 12) and my niece (who is almost 8), and we went to Canticle Farm for two hours to help with the garlic harvest. We arrived and trooped over to where the other workers were already busy. The beds are relatively long (for a smaller farm),…
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Olive Oil (or should I say, Solid Oil)
In an earlier post, about fruit flies, I noted that I stuck the olive oil in the fridge as part of my mania against the beasties. I’m not going to go into great detail here, but yes, it does affect it. And no, you shouldn’t put it in the fridge. This is the bottle, laying…
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Invasion!
Earlier this week, the house was suddenly and aggressively overrun by fruit flies. Primarily the kitchen, but also a few found out about the living room, and took up camp there. I wouldn’t go so far as to call myself an OCD germaphobe, but I am non-uniquely able to turn a blind eye to my…
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