(P.S. 70 days until my birthday.)
By Kristen | August 26, 2008
I am so in love with these recycled tote bags.
From their site:
This recycled rice bag is great for laundry day, shopping or a day at the beach. This bag comes in great colors and are sure to be a conversation piece! It measures 16 inches tall by 20 inches wide with the base measuring 13 inches across.They are practically indestructible. Made with fair trade practices and produced by Cambodian weavers; many of whom are disadvantaged female heads of households.
Also available as a smaller tote, a messenger bag, and a small purse — and all $30 or less. What’s not to love?
Topics: Green is Gezellig, It's a DYN-O-SITE! | No Comments »
We go together like oysters and… yogurt?
By Kristen | August 22, 2008
I’ve had a site tucked away in my ‘Other Blog Ideas’ folder, but I haven’t written about it because, honestly, I have no idea how to describe it.
Instead, I’ll just post it and walk away. Consider it my gift to you, to fritter away your Friday afternoon:
Topics: It's a DYN-O-SITE! | No Comments »
Facebook addicts:
By Kristen | August 19, 2008
Look! My blog is on The Face Books now, like the young’uns of today!
That’s right, I did the iggy! Now gimme five bees for a quarter!
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Torti di Pasta
By Kristen | August 18, 2008
Confession time: I let the polling remain open a few more days in the hopes one of the other recipes would pull out ahead of this one, because this recipe is the epitome of “stick a fancy name on something and people will be impressed.”
But this recipe won and, as I promised, I will post the details:
Topics: Vegetarian Recipes | 2 Comments »
Time for a poll:
By Kristen | August 7, 2008
I’m developing a backlog here, so I’ll ask you, O Mighty Reader, which recipe you’d like to be posted next:
1. Rawther fancy beans on toast:
2. Possibly perfect potato salad:
3. Torta di pasta:
So, what’ll it be? This poll will be open for a week, and the recipe will be posted next Friday.
Topics: Brave New Food, Make It Yourself | 6 Comments »
[hyperventilating nerd noises]
By Kristen | August 4, 2008
OMG I MUST OWN THIS KITCHEN APPLIANCE
SO I CAN WEAR MY FAVORITE SHIRT AS I EAT CYLON TOAST
Details: Sadly, both actual toaster and toaster shirt are WAY sold out, but you can console your nerd self with more BSG stuff on Sci Fi’s store, like, a shirt that says FRAK OFF (which, um, I also own) or, oh, I don’t know… a life-size Cylon Centurion? Come on! Who doesn’t need one of those?
Topics: It's a DYN-O-SITE!, What's on TV?, Odds and Sods | 3 Comments »
Why I love New York
By Kristen | July 31, 2008
Because there will come a day, maybe a Wednesday, when you will be sitting on an M train, heading downtown. You may be thinking of other things or listening to an iPod or watching a schoolteacher try to herd 17 8-year-olds onto the train but then you will see it, lying on the subway car’s floor. A receipt.
From Meat Heaven.
Topics: I (heart) NY, Odds and Sods | 13 Comments »
Salad dressing made me an outlaw.
By Kristen | July 28, 2008
Librarian: “Oh, looks like you’ve got a book overdue.”
Me, acting casual: “Do I?”
Librarian: “Yes… Memories of Philippine Kitchens?”
Me: “Oh, right. Can I renew it?”
Librarian: “No, it’s on hold for someone else.”
Me: “Oh, um, okay. I’ll bring it right in.”
Reader, I can assure you, that was a bald-faced lie.
I apologize to the other New York Public Library patron who is patiently waiting for this book, but I am not returning this cookbook anytime soon.
Memories of Philippine Kitchens is not only a.) totally gorgeous and b.) incredibly fascinating, but that salad (slaw? slawlad?) is dressed with one of the greatest salad dressings I have ever eaten.
Salad dressing adapted from the Kangkong Salad recipe in Memories of Philippine Kitchens:
1/3 cup vinegar (I’ve used rice and red wine vinegars)
4.5 tsp sugar
1 tsp olive oil
2 tsp mustard (optional; I prefer it without)
up to 1 tsp chili sauce (sriracha or sambal olek)
1/2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepperIf using as a salad dressing, add 1/4 cup water. Otherwise, whisk to combine all ingredients.
For the slaw pictured above, pour dressing over half a red cabbage and two or three cucumbers, all sliced very thinly. (I used this slicer to shred the cucumbers into the long strips you see.)
Refrigerate for a couple hours, during which time, the cucumbers will leech out some water and dilute the dressing a bit.
Just don’t blame me if this dressing turns you into a library scofflaw as well.
Topics: Vegetarian Recipes, Brave New Food, Greenmarket Grub | 1 Comment »
It’s all so clear to me now.
By Kristen | July 23, 2008
Why people started buying their fruits and vegetables from the nice, shiny, sanitary grocery store:
Never has the category “Greenmarket Grub” seemed so apt. I found this dude (and family? what the hell are those little black spots?) in my peaches. Not that it’s going to stop me from from buying food at the Greenmarket in any way, but let’s just say, I’m off peaches for a while.
Yeah. All set with peaches, thanks.
Topics: Greenmarket Grub | 6 Comments »
An old foe, vanquished.
By Kristen | July 15, 2008
About six years ago, I had just moved into in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood and before I’d even unpacked all the our boxes, I signed up for Urban Organic’s home delivery service.
The first week’s delivery sat at the wrong door of the brownstone in 93° heat all afternoon. I called and gave them instructions of which door to go to.
The second week, I found a box of humid, wilted produce in exactly the same spot. I called and gave them explicit direction of where to leave the box, and just to be sure, I left a note at the wrong door: wrong door, don’t leave my box of food here, thanks.
The third week, I stayed home all day, hefting my pregnant self up and down the stairs every hour or so to check the wrong door. And there it was, my note on the door and my box of produce. I canceled my Urban Organic subscription immediately, but that still left me with something that looked like this:
Topics: Vegetarian Recipes, Brave New Food, Greenmarket Grub | 5 Comments »
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