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 …
Category Archives: mutterings
happy happy!
“If I sing when I cook, the food is going to be happy.”– Pasquale Carpino, TV chef and operatic singer
tip 21.
Tip #21 from The Muffin Lady: “To avoid wasting the delicious vegan chocolate icing (chocolate + tofu) caked onto your immersion blender, immediately make a smoothie with strawberries and soy milk, so the chocolate gets washed into the smoothie!” Yeahhhhh.
Enjoyment, within reason
Brave New World. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Fahrenheit 451. Dystopian fiction paints a picture of a world that is not, but very well could be, if power were placed in the hands of the unjust and unreasonable. A gourmand’s dystopia would be one where all food was abolished, and all we needed were “nutrients”: a little pill …
Tough times
It is with sheepish hesitation that I admit that I don’t follow the news that closely. The topics are rather disconcerting; on the off occasion that I read a news article, it usually results in me dissolving into a crumpled heap, weeping because the world appears hopeless and just plain mean. Of course, this is …
Go getter
Ah, spring. A time for sticking your head out of the ground under which you have burrowed for the winter to sniff at the air. And what does it smell like, my woodland creature? Change. While a part of me would rather give a dirty look to those green shoots coming out of the …
Going green.
Along the river where I live, there is a little path where the Muffin Man and I like to walk in the early evening. As the sun gets low in the sky, it glitters on the river, flashing iridescent winks of light to mask the murky stew that slooshes by. It is a nice little …
Ways to reduce chocolate consumption
These aren’t tips. These are strategies. 1. Hide chocolate in a really unorganized pantry so they get lost in the clutter. You will find them later and heroic music will play and it will be like Indiana Jones finding the Covenant. 2. Get a tall person to hide chocolate at a …
Everything will be ok
It’s that time again. It’s widely known that the holidays are stressful: making sure you stay within the gift-buying budget, dealing with relatives’ banal questions, Christmas carols on pathological repeat, the existential crisis bubbling underneath the veneer of cheeriness and congeniality as another year slips by and you wonder what you’ve been doing with your …
Y is for yellow
It’s cold outside. We are heading into the heart of winter. Food is a consolation, the peep of sun in the middle of the day. In the bleak greyness of slush, a splash of colour on the plate is welcome reprieve. While pink seemed appropriate in the summer, it just seems too garish now, …