I hate bread

February 4, 2005

Except sometimes and some breads.

I love cornbread and I love my little cornbread iron. Maybe because it’s bound up in a possibly made-up memory or maybe it was something that really happened. But I believe that I became covetous of my Auntie S’s when she dished up some cornbread ‘ears’ for Thanksgiving at least 2 decades ago.

A cornbread iron is a perfect iron age tool. You heat it up, grease it up, heat it up some more and then pour in the cornbread batter. Shove the lot in the oven and the cornbread takes half the time and finishes with an excellent texture and crumb.
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How to behave like a Californian

February 2, 2005

Don’t throw away your avocado seeds! Grow them. That was my advice to KvR. Actually up here in the Polar Circle in the month of February these seeds, proof of my not always eating seasonal and local produce, will probably rot in the darkness before they sprout. They will however serve as a lesson in Californication for dear friend KvR who found my Occitanian stash and wondered ‘what the…’

It’s becoming a bit of joke down there that I don’t like to throw things away. But now that there’s a garden to plant the avos in, I don’t see what’s so funny about saving the seeds for my plantation of the future. And although ALL of the local friends chuckle when I say I want to grow avocados in the kitchen garden, if a banana tree (and a fig and a lemon) can grow, why can’t an avocado? We’re just going to have to take precautions; lots of hay and burlap in the winter once the sproutling is in a solid place.

That of course is YEARS away. 5 years before the avacado tree can go from pot to tub to a stationary place in the ground, and at least 10 before she’ll sprout some delicious avocados. I’ve got nothing but time and the changing weather patterns may eventually be on my side.
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More raw beets for the neighbours

January 31, 2005

Raw beet ravioli. Delicious, beautiful and here I am hybernating. It was time for all of my vegetarian architect neighbours to meet over dinner. Click below for recipe.