For many meals to come, Everything Soup! Really, I took all the vegetables in my fridge and made soup with them ( Read more... )

I'd forgotten how much fun it is to grade stuff. And how big certain time sucks can really be.

I came home this afternoon with a few ripe, slightly sad-looking (hence free!), but very delicious field tomatoes. So I slow roasted them: cut in halves and quarters, drizzled in olive oil and sprinkled with salt, put on a baking sheet, and sent into the oven at 200F for 3.5 hours. Oh - and I kept them company with a number of cloves of garlic ( Read more... )

A small bag of local wheat berries have come into my possession over this past weekend, and tonight they were half of my dinner. The other half consisted of some green beans. Once cooked they were mixed together with butter.

Wheat berries are my new favourite food, right up there with berries, avocado, and butter. They need to be more

An incredible documentary, entirely available online until July 15, HOME. I cannot stress how much anyone who has an internet connection must watch this film - it is about us all.

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years ( Read more... )

Happy 142nd, Canada!

Yes, I'm lazy, and I could really do with not having to figure out how much to tip every time I eat out. Such events almost always happen with a bunch of friends, and hence such a system would make splitting the bill much less annoying.

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OMFG I've wanted this for a while now.