Some people play the lottery “because it is fun to dream.” I’ve never really liked this whole “pay for the privilege of dreaming” thing. I can day dream about being rich just fine without 649’s dreaming fee. Something I’ve done a number of times in my life has been to sit back and seriously consider what I would do with…
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We’re Back!
Hey! We’re Back! This blog was started way back in 2012 when Cynthia and I started receiving our first CSA (Community Supported Agriculture, a box of fresh veggies delivered from a local farm once every two weeks) and experimenting with different “healthy living” ideas. Some of those stuck with us. Others, not so much. The blog pretty much died, and…
The Threat of Frozen Lasagne
Every Friday evening or Saturday morning, Cynthia and I put together our menu and shopping list for the following week. Every week we put down “Frozen Lasagne” for the following Friday (unless we’re having guests over on the Friday, then we move it to Thursday). So, you may ask, how much frozen lasagne do we go through? The answer: not…
When did advertising start glorifying the loser?
Nothing food related here, just a rant. When did advertising start glorifying the loser? I’m not going to claim the good old days had better commercials. I grew up with Bill Cosby shilling Jell-O. Advertising has always sucked. But advertising used to be about making people want to be someone cooler than themselves. “Damn, that Marlboro man is bad-ass. I want to be…
Winter Veggies
One question I’ve been asked several times recently is how long we plan on doing our vegetable delivery. Matt and I have discussed this and we decided that we will continue over the winter until we get a delivery that we just feel wasn’t worth the money. From what we understand, the place we get ours from will continue delivering…
Dark Honey
When I last talked about our Coffee, I mentioned that we were going to try it with dark honey in the future. In August we picked up a jar of really dark buckwheat honey at the local farmer’s market. It tastes like honey mixed with molasses (which I was not expecting). Cynthia loves it. I’m not as impressed (although it continues to…
Odds and Ends
As we headed into fall, Matt and I came face to face with one of our dilemmas that we knew was coming. We had no idea how to cook most root vegetables. The thought of turnip, parsnip, rutabagas, and beets filling up our basket frankly terrified us. We muddled through a few recipes (beet spaghetti was a fabulous find!) before…
Full Fat
or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the calorie I never struggled with my weight, at least not until I stood on that Wii Fit board for the first time and it told me that I was well into the overweight category. I made all sorts of excuses; BMI calculations based on height aren’t accurate; I worked out,…
The search for flour
As I mentioned in the Awesome Bread post, for the past several years I’ve been using Robin Hood Best For Bread flour. I’ve used regular all purpose (Robin Hood and local grocery store brand). In both cases it makes a denser less flavourful bread (honestly it tastes a lot like cheap bagged sliced bread). Since Robin Hood has stopped selling…
And back to our regularly scheduled programming…
So, we’d been neglecting the blog for the past few months. I can blame it on the wedding planning, honeymoon planning and whatnot, but it really boils down to laziness. However, since we are back from the honeymoon and I can no longer use that excuse for not updating (and the weather is not conducive to being outdoors), it’s time to…