Revelry Reverie

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!

July 25, 2010
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…

July 25, 2010
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 —…

July 22, 2010
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…

July 20, 2010
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…

July 19, 2010
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),…

July 18, 2010
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…

July 18, 2010
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…

July 16, 2010
Steam Results

My steamed dinner was a total success! Delicious, crunchy veggies (zucchini and broccoli) and light, succulent, flaky fish! And using the steamer was way easy. As easy as they make it sound in the mini-instruction booklet. The whole operation was quick and easy (and neat, too). See below for “before” images! There no “after” images,…

July 13, 2010
Behold – the Power of Steam!

I read a recipe in the print version of The Nest the other day for ginger steamed cod (I can’t find the recipe online, otherwise I’d link to it – but here’s something similar from Martha Stewart). The basic idea is that you shred some ginger, layer it over some spinach (or some other type…

July 12, 2010