I liked three babies yesterday. Not 'liked' as in I wanted them for myself, but 'liked' as in they didn't get on my nerves, and when they were crying I made stupid faces to try to make them stop crying. I wanted them to be happy. I WANTED THEM TO BE HAPPY!!! It must have been an … [Read more...] about Vermiculture, Drowning, and Liking Babies
Award-Winning Sweet-and-Sour Pickles
You're supposed to can these, but if you don't feel like sterilizing and going through all the trouble just to make a small batch of sugary cucumber pickles, skip the sterilizing and boiling jars steps and store the pickles in your fridge in a glass jar for maybe up to 3 … [Read more...] about Award-Winning Sweet-and-Sour Pickles
“What do you do with 30 Lbs of Cucumbers?” Part 4: Award-Winning Sweet and Sour Pickles
You're supposed to can these, but if you don't feel like sterilizing and going through all the trouble just to make a small batch of sugary cucumber pickles, just skip the sterilizing and boiling jars steps and store the pickles in your fridge in a glass jar for maybe up to 3 … [Read more...] about “What do you do with 30 Lbs of Cucumbers?” Part 4: Award-Winning Sweet and Sour Pickles
Interview with Starhawk on Permaculture and Urban Agriculture
Permaculture is a sustainable agricultural model - "an approach to designing human settlements and agricultural systems that are modeled on the relationships found in natural ecologies." Environmental and global justice activists, Starhawk and Donna Read, presented their film … [Read more...] about Interview with Starhawk on Permaculture and Urban Agriculture
Cucumber Sushi
I didn't have any sashimi-grade fish kicking around. Instead, what I had was cucumbers. Not a bad thing, as it turned out. Ingredients: 2 cups sushi rice (sushi rice is a short-grain rice that turns sticky when you cook it. You can find it at most grocery stores and all Asian … [Read more...] about Cucumber Sushi
Simple Dill Pickles
Finding a good basic dill pickle recipe was tricky. You don't need to can them and have them sit around for a week before you eat them if you don't want to - for "Quick Pickles" just make the brine and pour it over the pickles (preferably sliced so they absorb more of the liquid … [Read more...] about Simple Dill Pickles
Mayo-Free Potato Salad
It’s sad that most people probably don't think potatoes have a natural flavour besides maybe "starchy", and that’s hardly a flavour. That most recipes call for them to be coated in a large amount of some kind of fat to make them worth eating is not okay to me. There's nothing … [Read more...] about Mayo-Free Potato Salad
“What do you do with 30 Lbs of Cucumbers?” Part 3: Dill Pickles
In between sushi meals, I pickled. There's a whole lot of energy in sweetened and vinegared white rice, it turns out. Finding a good basic dill pickle recipe, however, turned out to be tricky. Now I know I should have gone either to my Joy of Cooking or to the US National Centre … [Read more...] about “What do you do with 30 Lbs of Cucumbers?” Part 3: Dill Pickles
30 Lbs of Cucumbers, Part 2: Cucumber and ORANGE PEPPER Sushi
I still had a lot of cucumbers and as yet, no pickles, so I used my leftover sushi rice to make a variation on a theme: cucumber-pepper sushi. This also happens to be my perfect breakfast - slightly sweetened, dense carbs, some greens. The salty, savoury antithesis to everything … [Read more...] about 30 Lbs of Cucumbers, Part 2: Cucumber and ORANGE PEPPER Sushi
“What do you do With 30 Lbs of Cucumbers?”: Part 1 – Cucumber Sushi
Yes, I had 30 lbs of cucumbers. It's a bit of a long story that involves a dinner party, a large shoulder bag, two sore shoulders, and ends with a lot of pickles. Somewhere between the sore shoulders and the pickles, however, there was sushi. Friend: "Hey I've got three giant … [Read more...] about “What do you do With 30 Lbs of Cucumbers?”: Part 1 – Cucumber Sushi