My mother used to buy nice clothes and hardly wear them because she wanted to keep them in good condition. Then they’d go out of style, and when we would be cleaning the closet trying to purge it of unnecessary and unworn items, we’d keep them, just in case they came back in style (and …
Author Archives: Adrienne
Tot-oro
The street outside our building is a crunchy carpet of acorns, a harbinger of colder months up ahead. You know what I think about when I see acorns? Totoro. I grew up watching the movie, “My Neighbor Totoro,” which is about two girls who move to rural Japan and discover a big furry creature …
sweet sounds.
For a long time my favourite sound has been ice gently and casually clinking in a glass, but the other day I happened across a new favourite: the sound of fruit juice sizzling as it smacks the baking sheet, because the peach and apple filling is leaking out of the pie crust while baking.
Sold by weight
I got a new agenda for 2013 the other week. Yes, I realize it is still August. Getting a new agenda is very exciting for me – the anticipation of new and wonderful possibilities! Empty, unfilled blocks of time – what will happen, who knows! Wooooo!!!! It’a the same way I feel when I walk …
tip 33b.
Tip #33(b) from The Muffin Lady: “When you’ve had a rough day, nothing perks up the spirit better than stuffing potato chips into a sandwich of roast beef on pumpernickel.” Indeed, indeed.
Lemon-on-on
So apparently gluten-free foods are super sexy right now. It seems that more and more people are being diagnosed (by themselves and otherwise) as having celiac disease/wheat intolerance. Perhaps it is due to our changing environment (damn those pesticides/preservatives/anything deemed unnatural/the government/plastic water bottles/slash punctuation marks), or perhaps it is simply greater awareness of intestinal …
Mind the potato
When I first moved out on my own, meals often consisted of one or two ingredients: dinner would be a giant bowl of steamed broccoli streaked with grated cheese, or a plate of spaghettini tossed in pesto. While this style of eating might initially appear bereft (and have a whiff of the pathetic), it was …
homegrown.
I like people who grow their own food and then give some to me and then I get to eat it.
gluten free vegan awesomeness.
I’ve been baking gluten-free, vegan goodies for my friend’s farmer’s market stall. It has been a fun experiment thusfar! I’ve made brownies with pea fibre, muffins with buckwheat flour, and the most recent creation have been blondies (brownies without cocoa powder in the batter). Yay!
happy happy!
“If I sing when I cook, the food is going to be happy.”– Pasquale Carpino, TV chef and operatic singer