WTF is up with the foodie/hipster obsession with bacon?  Bacon-wrapped everything.  Bacon ice cream.  Chocolate covered bacon.  The bacon department at Archie McPhee.  Bacon Flickr streams.  Bacon blogs.

OK, I get it -- bacon is tasty (at least I think it is.  I haven't actually eaten any in over 30 years).  But tasty or not, how much smoked, crispy ( Read more... )

So on my lunchtime errands I stopped by Trader Joe's to pick up some almond extract (which they seem to have discontinued) and grape tomatoes (which they have not).  My total purchase was $5.98, so I handed the kid behind the counter a $5 bill and a Sacagawea $1 coin.  She studied the coin, holding it close to her face ( Read more... )

 
This week's haul from the CSA included six and a half pounds of green beans, so that was last night's project. 
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Yes, again.  Another fire alarm.  At 2:30 this morning.  Once again, no damage and no one was hurt.

We were both startled awake by the building-wide fire alarm. 
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 Do I have to have fire-related trauma every May?  Is it a tradition now?

Last year I posted about how my own stupidity filled our apartment with smoke, endangered our cats, and brought out the fire department.  Yesterday's incident wasn't my fault, but I did act like an idiot.

Got home from work last night at about 7:45, tired and headachy and just ( Read more... )

On Sunday I was in the shower, where I get most of my good ideas, when I developed a plan to prepare lots of healthy delicious food for the work week.  Part of this plan was to make a huge vat of hummus.  When I got into the kitchen, it occurred to me to be all frugal and stuff and cook the dried chickpeas that have been lingering in the cupboard ( Read more... )