i've eaten some cactus since i last posted. i had eaten cactus before, but what i did was cut the cactus in half and scooped out the inside, which doesn't provide much. i made a ensalada de nopales with a prickly pear pad from my yard, but i think it was too mature, and it was certainly very slimy. i cooked it according to instructions on the ( Read more... )

i kinda figured i would not keep up with a food blog. but even though i haven't, i still will post here and there. the salad i had the other night is worth posting about ( Read more... )

based on a thai cucumber salad recipe from a cookbook i made this yummy yummy salad ( Read more... )

channa masala the other day was good ( Read more... )

today i had oatmeal with fresh blueberries (they were on sale), stevia, flax meal, and shredded coconut. yum ( Read more... )

who knows how well i'll keep up with this food blog thing. i've got other things going on, but it's fun for now ( Read more... )

a salad i've been making:
spinach
sprouts (clover)
avocado
sunflower seeds
lemon juice
(dulse included in first two batches, but it's good without too)

for work yesterday i baked a sweet potato. i cut up some zucchini and cooked it with the black beans i had previously made, plus some salsa and corn. i added some salt and nutritional yeast and when it was done, i put the zucchini mix into a big short thermos thing that i think i got at the really really free market or a thrift store (it's lined ( Read more... )

today i made some whole boiled greens with spicy peanut sauce from "garden of eating". the greens are just whole when you boil them, but you do chop them. the spicy peanut sauce is different from what i usually do because it has chipotle powder in it. i have leftovers ( Read more... )

i had this idea, one i've had before but put aside, of doing a food blog. yesterday i was thinking that it would be a good way to work on the zine i've been putting off, but i'd be doing it piece by piece over time and people would have access to it. so then i was thinking maybe since i have this lj account and i have a blog on border issues ( ( Read more... )