Entries Tagged as 'Foodage'
When in Doubt…Make a Bacon Dessert?
For some reason, I have never been a bacon person. With only a few half-baked vegetarian stints and a general love of meat, especially of the barbecue/pork varieties, I have probably had straight-up bacon about five times in my entire life. And I’m pretty sure I’ve had good, well-prepared bacon too, and yet, I feel [...]
Categories: Foodage
Re-working reality
“‘To re-work reality’ I had written somewhere: temeritous, presumptuous words indeed–for it is reality which works and reworks us on its slow wheel.” -Lawrence Durrel, Clea Um, where did April go? April was a cruel month in some ways, staying true to the T.S. Eliot poem, but let’s focus on the positive. When everything seemed [...]
Categories: Artsy/Crafty · Foodage · Life
Iced Vegan Pumpkin Spice Cookies
While I’m not vegan, I like a good self-imposed food challenge, especially when it comes to baked goods. How to replace eggs and butter, two prominent cookie ingredients, in particular? I was asked to come up with a “pumpkin spice cookie,” but I figured I’d go the extra mile in recipe-developing by finally buying my [...]
Categories: Foodage
August Re-cap
I have been doing a lot of things/visiting a lot of places that have long been on to-do/to-visit lists, either on paper, in a text file somewhere or just floating around in my mind. Here is an August smattering of such things: I went to Westport, Connecticut for a long weekend, where my aunts from [...]
Categories: Artsy/Crafty · Foodage · Life
What’s cookin’…
In an attempt to use my garden harvest fast enough, I have been trying some variations on tomato-and-herb recipes, and getting way too excited about one vegan recipe in particular that I found on the internet, so much so that I have made it previously but haven’t been able to take pictures before devouring it. [...]
Categories: Foodage
Garden Check-in
Wow, it has been two months since I did a little photo-and-verbal check-in about my garden; I can successfully report however that I am up to 29 grape tomatoes and 4 cucumbers harvested, edible nasturtium flowers, countless palm-fuls of herbs used for pestos and vase displays, and even a simulated mini-lily pad pond I came [...]