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Have I already posted this?
This outtake from Toy Story 2 has my new favorite line: "and your angry eyes, just in case." -
Tell me a story!
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Radical Urban Sustainability Training
The urban sustainability class that aroraborealis and I took together a few years ago is again coming to Albany on October 2 and 3. It's a neat class with a wide variety of ideas, focused on do-it-yourself-able solutions. It's also held at an extremely cool school that is doing awesome things with both sustainability and social justice. Worth checking out if ( Read more... ) -
Ask Foodie LJ: monkey bread
So it turns out that essentially all recipes for monkey bread made from scratch call for a yeast dough (like this). However, the laziest-ever monkey bread is made by cutting up biscuit dough from the refrigerator (like thisIs there some reason I'm not grasping that I couldn't make my own biscuit dough and then make biscuit-y monkey bread? Is there ( Read more... ) -
NYT restaurant critic tells all (sorta)
The NYT's Sam Sifton posted both his food and exercise log for the week* and an odd article that combines thoughts on eating and health with bonus salad dressing recipes.
He also took questions on the blog post, and has started answering them in a series of columns. The whole thing is a pretty interesting read if you're interested in thinking ( Read more... ) -
Nutritional data
I am looking for the least-annoying available way to get nutrition data from recipes! Everything I've been easily able to lay hands on has required me to enter each ingredient, select what I really meant from a list, select a unit of measure (if that option is offered!), and then enter a quantity. When repeated for a dozen ingredients, this is ( Read more... ) -
Food blogs!
So, it turns out that in order to maintain a food blog, you have to cook a lot. And really, it's best if you cook a lot from a variety of sources. On my list of things to do is to whip out my underutilized cookbook collection, which surely has a lot of good stuff hiding in its depths, but I'm also looking for new and fabulous food blogs. Tell me ( Read more... )
