I mentioned Straus Family Creamery back in my Mt. Tam post as providing the milk that goes into Cowgirl Creamery cheese. Besides that, of course, they also make milk and other dairy products, like yogurt. Ryan very kindly brought some SFC whole-milk Eurostyle yogurt to dinner the other day as an unexpectedly awesome component of […]
Category Archives: Food
New year, new food.
I’ve been doing a good bit of cooking since I got back from my Christmas trip: squash and black bean empanadas, vegan crepes with fruit, chickpea curry. Today I decided to try something new, the recipe just before the empanadas in Veganomicon: Autumn Latkes. These are latkes made with carrot, sweet potato, and beet shreds […]
Does anyone have Staythesame.gov yet?
I haven’t generally been extremely hopeful about Obama as president as far as “Change” goes — my feelings tend more to the “intelligent, self-reflective, moderately liberal guy? okay, that sounds pretty good” sort — but I am fairly disappointed that he’s appointing a Secretary of Energy who thinks the problems are on the supply side […]
Things not to put in mashed potatoes
Many things are excellent additions to mashed potatoes, but vanilla-flavored soy creamer is not among them, especially not when you want to put them on top of a lentil-vegetable base and make vegetarian shepherd’s pie. (Be quiet. I was out of soymilk.)
Eeeeevil cookies.
Keebler Fudge Shoppe Grasshopper Cookies: The all-year Thin Mints! They have a slightly artificial taste that the Thin Mints don’t have, but otherwise are extremely similar. Yum!
Mt. Tam: cheesy edition
Back in August, training for Waves to Wine, I did a ride with J & C which ended with trip to Berkeley Bowl and the Berkeley Marina. C & I looked at cheese while we were in Berkeley Bowl and saw Mt. Tam, which was a contestant in the Tomato Nation NCheeseAA (it made it […]
The fifth law
…or maybe the zeroth. :) My boss added a 5th law of PMing today: 5. If you think you just received everything you need to move forward, chances are good you’re wrong. A moment ago, I was sitting, carefully removing pumpkin puree from my hand blender with a finger, and wondering how many other people […]
Rocket!
According to Michael Pollan, rocket is also the “proper American name” for arugula: It is true you might want to plant iceberg lettuce rather than arugula, at least to start. (Or simply call arugula by its proper American name, as generations of Midwesterners have done: “rocket.”) Arugula is the Italian name for it, so I’m […]
Arugula!
After my first year of employment (I think first full year, but it doesn’t really matter to this story) I had saved more money than I expected. I was telling my mom this and that I really wasn’t sure how I’d done it, since I didn’t keep a good budget (I still don’t; it is […]
Strawberry frustration
I love strawberries. The best ones are fragrant and sweet with a hint of tartness. I want to describe them as a “flavor burst in the mouth” but that sounds unfortunatey like a commercial. I buy them almost every week in the summer when they’re available. I freeze them to keep for over the winter […]