tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-217771312011-11-27T16:45:06.805-08:00Food, sustainabilty, politics, more food, not caring about politics/sustainability for a minute because I want a candy bar, Portland, roller derby, beer, vegetarianism, etc.Friskynoreply@blogger.comBlogger238125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21777131.post-1984270683168325562011-07-24T11:52:00.000-07:002011-07-24T11:52:29.344-07:002011-07-24T11:52:29.344-07:00

As you may have guessed from the lack of posts for the last two years, I've moved on from the Almost Sustainable Kitchen.  I didn't have much time to cook, and living in Portland makes blogging about sustainability seem almost redundant.  We have composting in our office.  I don't have much to say about it anymore. However, I missed blogging, so I made a brand new shiny roller derby blog called

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After a year of living in a one-bedroom apartment and two summers of direct sun with no air flow, my sweetie and I are moving next weekend.  Into a free-standing structure with a yard and everything!  Pre-loaded with a friend and her dog!  We're excited.  And probably not cooking too much this week. One huge and unexpected downside to our current apartment is that we don't have a freezer: we

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Lately, the Portland Soup Company cart has had this baby arugula salad with sundried tomatoes, parmesean, fried rosemary, and a basalmic vinegrette.  And I don't even like rosemary, but for some reason, that fried rosemary really makes that salad something special.  Fried rosemary.  Who knew?

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This can be prepared in ten minutes without practiced choreography.  It helps if your greens are already clean and dry.  You'll hit all your major food groups and macronutrients - not bad if you're like us, and just making enough time to eat (and watch an episode of Arrested Development) before you're on to the next thing.  1. Wash and dry a bunch of arugula. 2. Heat a pan for eggs 3. Halve

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1. Go to farmer's market at lunch. Buy tomatoes and zucchini.2. Reduce some basalmic vinegar by half3. Saute zucchini until tender4. Add basalmic glaze5. Cook down a little more, then add halved cherry tomatoes to heat through6. Don't eat it all in one sitting7. (Go to sleep. Wake up. Go to work. Come home.)8. Make a fake chicken sandwich with melted provolone.9. Put some of this good stuff

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You guys missed so much food while I wasn't blogging! Sorry about that. Life is for the living, and this girl's been a little busy. Or, maybe just...kind of standing around. But I've kept thinking that life is just too good not to share with you all. I mean, I had a tomato basil galette with a ciabatta roll for lunch, and we're having Two Tarts cookies for a treat in a few minutes. And

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did you notice that i haven't posted for a while? sorry! things have gotten busy, and the blog has slipped down the list of priorities. tonight i cooked for the first time in days, and we had grilled cheese and tomato soup. yep. it's like that. the blog is offically going on haitus. this weekend is the first farmer's market, so i might be stirred to post. we'll see. enjoy some of my

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boy, am i glad i was born. friday was my birthday, and it's been a non-stop celebration over in these parts. my sweetie was working on friday night, however, so we didn't get to celebrate together how we would have liked. instead, i took an hour-long bus ride to eat a slice of pizza with him before he had to go back to business. luckilly, on saturday, we had the chance to do things up right.

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hi, i'm back! the awesomeness of 2009 is just blowing me straight out of the blogging water. just in the last two weeks: a new nephew, a new president, and a new job. not bad at all. and this weekend, i'll be blogging for foodbuzz's 24, 24, 24 event - meaning 24 bloggers all have awesome meals on the 24th (usually) and blog about it within 24 hours. just as a sneak peak, i'll be enjoying a

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happy new year! 2008 was quite a year for me - i started roller derby, which created a huge subset of new adventures and general lifestyle changes, i went to san diego, we went to new york, we moved back to portland, i've had two temporary jobs, barack obama was elected...yep. big year. meeting michael pollan my hand, shortly after a brief contact with barack obama's hand back in portland

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let me set a scene for you: it's winter. you live in portland, or. since it so rarely snows, streets are not plowed well or often. there are 8 inches of snow on the ground (!) and freezing rain on top of it. you know what you need? a hot toddy. from my internet research, i've found that a toddy can be as simple as whiskey, lemon, honey and hot water, or more nuanced with applejack, cinnamon

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ah, mother nature. she giveth the vegetables, and she taketh them away. the last portland farmer's market of the season (tomorrow) was cancelled due to the threat of inclement weather. we've been experiencing what the local news media likes to refer to as an ARCTIC BLAST for the last week or so, but thing might actually be messy on saturday. sigh.

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so, my blog sponsor, foodbuzz? they asked me if they should send me free cookies in exchange for a review. "uh, okay," i said. never having said no to a free cookie before, i wasn't about to start now. so, they sent me two ginger cookies from organica deluxe to try out. in this big shoebox-looking thing. filled with peanut packing. now, apparently, this packing situation means that your

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our "plan a" for saturday night was foiled when the movie we wanted to see was sold out, so i came up with a delicious plan b: dessert at pix patisserie. for some reason, i'd never been there. it was about time. i had an amelie, with orange vanilla crème brûlée, glazed chocolate mousse, caramelized hazelnuts, praline crisp, and cointreau génoise. oh yeah. brian had the shazam! with caramel

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i just got my january issue of vegetarian times in the mail, featuring a recipe by my friend mari. check out the reader recipe for black bean and plaintain burritos on page 12, and the recipe for spicy mango salsa online. check out her blog, too. now i feel like i oughta cook something other than beans and rice or pasta. man, have i been unimaginative lately. i need a culinary kick in the

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while most farmer's markets are closed for the season, in portland, we're lucky enough to have temperate climate good for growing diverse crops. those wagon trains didn't trek across the oregon trail for nothing. the portland farmer's market at portland state university is running through december. there aren't nearly as many vendors as at the peak of summer, but the crowds are more sparse, too

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i'll just run down the short list of what i'm thankful for this year. or this morning. an awesome husband who, among other things, makes me coffee every morning. it's good today, babe. not having to cook today. being back in portland, with friends to go out with wednesday night, and family on thursday. friends and family who might happen to be in other places. rollerskates. crisp apples.

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when these candied citrus peels are made out of oranges, you call them orange sticks or orangettes. what about lemon? lemon sticks? i intended to make orangettes last weekend, but the organic oranges at our local store looked terrible. yellow, sickly, sad...no go. please, if you're going to go candy some citrus, make it organic. poisons aren't going to get blanched out. or, maybe they would,

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yep, your turkey has to die before you can eat it. who wants salad? i'm in the process of blanching some peels for candied lemon right now - i'll let you know if it turns out!

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if you're looking for an interesting idea for a fruit dessert, you might as well go to the source. we have a quince in the kitchen that's a few days away from being ripe, and i wasn't quite sure how to dispose of the thing. note: do not eat quince raw. i've never tried one, but my googling makes that quite clear. mine hasn't filled our kitchen with a delightful scent just yet, but i've learned

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even though i've been unemployed, and therefore should technically have all the time in the world to figure these things out, i've had a terrible time getting into a good grocery routine since we've moved back to portland. we have so many more choices, though none quite so convenient as the co-op across the street from my office in bloomington. for a while, i was making occasional trips to the

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a vote for ralph nader is a vote for john mccain. it's too close for protest votes. http://www.lcv.org/campaigns/endorsements/ i've already voted. it was awesome. . in food-and-election-related news, i'm working at the county elections office, and i verified the signature of a prominent vegan cookbook author (cough, who recently moved to portland, cough) today. go vegan vote!

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new posts forthcoming! sorry, i've been living other parts of life lately, but it's time to put more energy back into the kitchen. here's what i've been doing: now that the rainy season seems to have set in for the year, i'm starting to feel a little more domestic. it was just too beautiful there for a while.

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yep, i'm flying away tomorrow to play some roller derby in indiana. ready for my game day bagel and salad... ...see you back here early next week!

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so it took me a while, but i finally made it down to food fight to pick up soy curls. (among other things, like vegan vitamins.) and, guess what? i love them. sorry for the bad picture - i wasn't expecting to blog this, but it was really tasty.good things about soy curls:since they're dry, they're easy to keep on hand. you can cook a lot or just a little at a time without worrying about the

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