Outpost 505

We had lunch at 4pm today.  Is it still lunch when you eat at 4pm?  Is it still lunch if you eat it after an afternoon nap?  Regardless, it was the second meal of the day, so we’re going to call it lunch. Earlier in the week I cooked a whole mess o’ chickpeas.  I [...]

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I’ve been cooking up a storm since we got home from Cleveland last Wednesday – I just haven’t been blogging about it. I made hummus and fresh pita bread for our friends’ New Year’s party – the latter was perfect, unlike earlier pita efforts. We were both somewhat worse for wear on Saturday, and the [...]

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I’ve had an intense avocado craving since Sonya mentioned that Octavia would be trying her first banana and avocado last week.  Bananas and avocados are two of my local food failings – I love both intensely, and it makes me very sad that neither can be grown anywhere close to the Mitten. Two years ago, [...]

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You know what I’m talking about, right?  Thanksgiving was about two weeks ago, and Christmas is coming in just under three.  Hanukkah, replete with gorgeous fried things, started on Thursday.  If you live in North America, as 91.9% of you readers do, chances are very good that you’re right in the middle of six weeks [...]

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There’s certainly no shortage of pumpkin recipes this time of year – like pumpkin bread pudding or cakes made of pumpkin (and other) pies – but we’ll get enough of that at/around the actual holiday.  I picked up a couple of wee pumpkins at the market the other weekend with good intentions of making soup [...]

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Shane’s gone for the weekend – more moped stuff in Cleveland – and I’ve got a whole lot of nothing planned.  This morning I drank coffee, made a trip to the garden, and made a lovely soup for a late lunch while watching the Iowa game which, by the way, I don’t want to talk [...]

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So see, we had these for breakfast: That’s right. Homemade donuts. And a lot of them, including this beauty that I dipped myself: All made by the usual bakefest crew while we ate breakfast burritos and Matt and Shane stoked the fire in Olivia’s woodburning stove. So you can imagine that we were on a [...]

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Despite my previous enthusiasm, I’ve decided that I’m done with this recipe.  It’s just – boring. And it makes WAY TOO MUCH. And those two things are a bad combination in my book.  Let me back up. Photo by citymama The weather was brisk today, and I anticipated spending most of the day helping my [...]

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Another half-homemade dinner.   While Shane worked out in our basement gym, I zipped up to Plum to do the week’s grocery shopping – Shane will be in Cleveland with the car all weekend – including the components of a grilled cheese and tomato soup dinner. Photo by Arnold Goodway I used the last of the [...]

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I sincerely hope the celeriac fries aren’t to blame, but I’ve had the worst stomachache since this morning, and nothing seems to be making it better.  I’ll spare you the gruesome details, but I will note that I’ve spent a lot of time with the heating pad and cups of ginger tea this afternoon and [...]

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