I have to admit, when I made a kind of flip comment the other day about meat being defined as “having a face” in the footnote of a “post”:http://metacookbook.com/archives/211-Whats-the-longest-youve-gone-without-eating-meat.html about how often we eat meat, “this wasn’t what I was thinking of, but it qualifies.”:http://www.girlmeetsbug.com/

Of course, I should have thought of it, since I’ve eaten bugs a couple of times. To me, they don’t taste like much of anything at all. I guess I should experiment more.

What about you? If I told you that eating bugs really isn’t unpleasant at all, would you try them? Does the fact that, apparently, raising & eating bugs answers a lot of the issues brought up in the previous posts and comments sway you?

I should totally see if I can find a recipe for chapulines.… Continue reading →

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 →