Cos and I made Blueberry Nectarine Pie tonight, and it's just as delicious as I remember it from the first time I made it with my aunt 8 years ago...mmmm, tasty memories.


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Thought of the day, comes from NY Times.

Parmesan Cheese Troubles
Since the mid-1950's, scientists have known that milk contained multiple types of casein, known as beta, alpha and kappa casein, and that the levels of the proteins in milk varied with different cattle breeds. It was not an important issue until the mid-1970's when dairy farmers in ( Read more... )

I am hosting a chocolate making workshop, you all should come!  Here's the event announcement:

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We have a ripe Cacao pod on the Theobroma tree at the greenhouse!   To celebrate, there will be mini workshop this Sunday evening on cacao beans and chocolate.

Raw Cacao Workshop

When: Sunday, March 9th at 10:00 PM
Where: Phi ( Read more... )

So I've made it through my second month completely free of cane sugar and corn syrup. 
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I was asked to write up the recipe for the cookies we took to the Warm Foods party this weekend, so here it is (hopefully mostly accurate ( Read more... )

I met some really wonderful people today! 
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This was the first weekend in literally the last two months that I didn't have committed plans with someone to go somewhere.  Starting with trips to Boston, then California to see my family, the fetish fair, Arisia, Montpelier, more trips to Boston...

So what does one do on a mental health recovery weekend?

Saturday I went to the Farmers' Market and ( Read more... )

I'm one month into my sugar/corn syrup free year and I'm going strong.  I've definitely eaten an obscene amount of fruit this month to compensate, but I can live with that.  Matt keeps mocking me looking for ways to play with my resolve...like drinking milk shakes and then trying to kiss me threatening that the sugar residue in his mouth will break ( Read more... )

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