Andrea the Gastronaut

I’ve got three posts in my head on the following topics:

1. The chili I made last week and am still enjoying. (Guess I should freeze it…)

2. The baking I did yesterday (Sunday).

3. My new recipe organization project.

Posting my Twitter updates is a cop out, I know. It’s easier to post 140 character messages when I think of them. I realize that this is possibly annoying to the reader. I can’t even use being sick and busy as excuses. Sure, I’ve had a cold for the last week. Sure, I’ve been busy at work (3 days until the Ontario Budget is delivered in the Legislature), and in theory prepping for my krav maga Practitioner Level 1 test (in actuality being sick has kept me from two practices, one of which was a run through of the test that I may now back out of). Not really valid excuses but excuses nonetheless.

That said, there’s a post of links coming shortly, and the three over the next few days.

In the meantime, here’s some other recently discovered blogs & websites for you to check out:

• Ask a Chef in Training: A brand new blog written by an old high school friend who I haven’t seen since he was a punk-ass 18 year old know it all. I look forward to the new blog and learning something from it.

• Skinny Chef: I just came across it because Jennifer is now writing for Slashfood.

• Meghan Telpner’s website and blog: I came across it because she writes for the National Post’s food & drink blog.  I’m surprised that she wasn’t on my radar previously, because I know her brother. (If he’s reading: You’d be a better brother if you’d sporadically plug your sibling’s company like I do mine. Where’s the shameless  promotion on Facebook?)

Onward…

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Instead of moving the posts over here are links. Any comments can be left here.

Published May 20, 2008 (most recent): Popcorn prices rise, food snobbery, many Jewish references, a reference to Lost and more. Feeling spoiled, snobby and guilty, how corn stocks will increase the price of movie tickets, Tips for Feeding Grieving Friends and dog beer.

Published May 16, 2008: Friday’s food blog. I like pie. And tarts. Links to homemade yogurt, a review for a kombucha drink, and a note about using wakame with caution.

Published: May 14, 2008: Food blogginess. References posts about chocolate and an essay from Slate that I really like and will link again here. It’s called Meatless Like Me- I may be a vegetarian, but I still love the smell of bacon. I keep thinking about the following statement from that article:

“I try to represent for the animal kingdom, but take a look at my shoes—they’re made of leather, which, I am told by those with expert knowledge of the tanning process, comes from dead cows. This is the sort of revelation that prompts meat boosters to pick up the triumphant lamb shank once again and accuse us of hypocrisy. Well, sort of. (Hey, you try to find a pair of nonleather dress shoes.) My dedication to the cause might be incomplete, but I’d still say that doing something beats doing nothing.”

Published May 11, 2008: More food blog goodness. Stir fries, roasted vegetables, weird uses for vodka and some cool recipes.

Published May 08, 2008: Food blog #2: Fruit and cupcakes. Includes a link to a discussion about storing fresh herbs.

Published April 30, 2008: Experimenting with a new blog format: Food blog. There’s a good link in there to a post in David Lebovitz’s blog about food photography.

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In the meantime, see http://www.verbing-nouns.net/thoughts.html.

Posts will be copied and pasted over, an onerous job. One for a slow work day.

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