Hello Friends,
Long time no see. I’m totally embarassed to see the date of the last post being March. What happened to this blog anyway? Well, things got busy, my grandpa died, and I just haven’t been into writing. I can’t say that I’m totally into it again with the same fervor as before, but I can commit to posts more frequently than 3 months apart. I mean really.
In the world of food, my life has been a little crazy when I compare it against where I was 6 months ago. I’d been ignoring most cookbooks, and hadn’t made bread in forever. I still haven’t purchased any bread in the store this year (go go gadget 6 months) and was going without it instead. I haven’t been doing a whole lot of cooking, but I’ve still be photographing food I eat and make (mostly) and have been enjoying that a great deal.
In my family food life, my husband has been eating vegan for about 3 weeks. It’s crazy. He’s a spinach eating machine. Since this happened, I’ve been eating less meat, though I haven’t given it up, and I’ve been taking it easy on dairy. Not much in comparison, sure, but I don’t know if the veggie life is for me – at least not right now. I like butter too much. The upside has been the complete and total abundance of fruit in the house, which I love. In other news, my dog, has switched to a fancier dog food (Merrick) to give him less filler and more variety. Right now he’s eating “Grammy’s Pot Pie.” The extra couple of dollars makes the difference when I see him dancing for his food each time. It’s sort of a trip.
Today, I tried to make some hummus and totally failed. I took no pictures. It was a waste. The recipe was junk. This was first time this had happened in a long time. It called for 1/3 c water to 1 c garbanzos (in addition to tahini, lemon, and garlic) and seriously…we made garbanzo soup. It looked gross. The texture was just too gross to eat. We actually saved it and put it in the fridge to see if it would harden at all – and 6 hours later = no. Still gross.
My garden is still going strong, yet I have products exactly zilch in terms of vegetables. The basil is doing well. The war with the insects rages on. Who knew moths were so evil? I planted a sprouted onion yesterday (to go with all the sprouted garlic) and it looks pretty good. I have some flowers on the tomatoes and I’m hoping for at least one.
So, what happened, why am I back? Well, I cleaned off my desk (yay), got my flickr account back online (things got jankety for some reason), and I’d been missing it. I look forward to reconnecting a bit (yay for comments) and bringing the skinny on phx food back to the web.
Sidebar: Went to San Francisco – had the best Chinese food we’ve ever had. House of Nanking. Cash only, probably a line. It’s worth it. I have great photos of the noodles I still dream about but that will have to wait for another post 
That’s it for now.
Hearts & Flowers,
R
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