Hi guys! Okay, unlike last weekend, this weekend I have reason to expect you won’t see much activity on MetaCookbook. I’m expecting to get another entry out today, but one total for today, tomorrow and Sunday is about what I expect. This weekend is looking rather busy (at least I know in advance), so I figured you deserved a heads-up.
Worst-case scenario: You’ll see something new and interesting Monday. It will probably involve beans.… Continue reading →
Well, I was planning to post a recipe and my cooking failures along with it today (I have a lot of bean recipes coming up, and it turns out I am terrible at cooking beans), but I got distracted by a comment some random person made elsewhere on the internet.
Yes, yes, I know. If I spend all my time on other places on the internet, allowing myself to get distracted by the comments I read, I’m probably going to stop cooking. And eating. And sleeping. And taking bathroom breaks. The internet is vast. Thus, I promise not to do this terribly often, but I thought it was worth considering once it happened this time. Especially once I’d had a conversation with my good friend Angelique and realized it was blog-fodder.… Continue reading →
Jessie came over to work out with me this morning and asked me if her RSS reader was acting up, since she hadn’t seen a post from me in a few days.
Oops. And I’d done so well about posting daily too.
Simply put, the weekend was busy and fun, and unexpectedly started Friday afternoon. It ended Tuesday morning, but that was expected since Mr. Bill was off Monday. Which means that Tuesday was full of “catch up”. Luckily, I did a bunch of cooking this weekend.
Unluckily, I did a bunch of cooking this weekend.
See, our stove has the world’s weirdest problem. It doesn’t light quite as quickly as expected under normal use. That’s fine. What’s not fine is that the delay in lighting gets worse if the stove isn’t used for awhile.… Continue reading →
Reading, writing and thinking about food―and cooking food!—are such a significant part of my life now that it’s hard to believe I’ve only been sharing recipes and food thoughts here at MetaCookbook for eight months. The importance of food and food issues have been a long and slowly simmering topic for me (kind of like an excellent pot of chili), and one of the sources of this interest was “the 2001 Discover article on Gary Nabhan and his quest to eat locally sourced foods to save the planet.”:http://discovermagazine.com/2001/may/feateatlocal
Nabhan’s views, as presented in the article, started the process of challenging how I thought about food and how I eat. I will come right out and say that reading the article didn’t change my food habits right away―but Nabhan’s ideas and experience lodged themselves in my brain.… Continue reading →
I’ve been fighting with an entry all day today. It’s not a recipe entry, and it’s not another one about a cookbook. It’s about food, and a few of the changes in my relationship with food. It’s basically a “thoughts” post.
The problem is that I ramble in that post. A lot. I tend to be a bit of a rambling writer anyway, as I suspect my readers know by now, but this is even larger in scope, so the rambles are all over the place. It’s all connected in my head, but it certainly doesn’t show up connected in the words. So I keep drafting and tweaking and asking for help. Angelique has helped me polish much of my writing in my life, including my M.Sc.… Continue reading →
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