Archive for the 'Cooking' Category

Making vegetarian food tastier; or

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Cooking with the world’s most dangerous* additive; or
How I stopped worrying and learned to love MSG.
A few weeks ago, I heard Robert Krulwich on NPR talking about umami - the fifth taste. If you didn’t hear it, go to the link above. As always, Krulwich makes the story very engaging. He describes […]

Home made sourdough bread

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

One of my favorite things is really good bread. Back when I was in school, I bought a book on making bread. It started from a home made sourdough starter that had no commercial yeast. It was basically water and flour with a few grapes tied in a bag to give it […]

Happy July 4th

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

I hope everyone had a good 4th of July and if you had the day off, you enjoyed it.
I spent my day doing a little of this and a little of that. I picked up a low water use irrigation system that I’ve run to the flowers and the blueberry bushes. I’ll need […]

Weekend cooking

Monday, June 11th, 2007

I made a few things I’ve never made before for dinner last night, including lemon pizza and two kinds of ice cream.
The lemon pizza recipe is from the Wednesday Chef and was mentioned by someone on an IRC channel (etselec? I can’t remember - sorry).  K and I don’t eat salmon roe, so I substituted […]

Vegetarianism

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Technically, K and I are not vegetarians. We’re pesco-vegetarians: we’ll eat fish and I’ll eat shellfish (K just doesn’t like shellfish ). We didn’t become pesco-vegetarians overnight. We started by getting rid of red meat, so no pork, beef, lamb, etc. More recently, we stopped making chicken at home […]