It occurred to me yesterday, as I stood in the SuperFresh reading labels on cartons of soy milk, trying in vain to find one that didn’t have sugar in it, that I don’t eat as well as I do — by which I mean a minimum of processed and prepared foods, virtually no junk food, [...]
Tagged food choice, processed foods, shopping, supermarketsI admire Michael Ruhlman for several reasons, only one of which is that he has the good sense to continue to live in our shared and quite wonderful home town. I also admire him for his attitudes about home cooking and about the tendency of modern food writers to tout “quick and easy” recipes whose [...]
Tagged home cookingI’ve been running errands and doing chores since I finished the chapter section I needed to finish today (my equivalent of getting off work) and frankly, my multitasking is not good enough to clean the bathroom, do my laundry, reorganize a supply cabinet, and clean the cat boxes whilst also cooking dinner. The Belovedary, sadly, [...]
Tagged leafy greens, salads, wednesday's supperI realized the other day that I almost never hear anyone talk about dusting. Astonishing, really, when you think about it. People tend to have so much stuff in their houses, in their spaces, in their lives, and so much of it is, let’s face it, stuff that we don’t use all that often. I [...]
Sometimes the house is too loud for me to get much work done. Not loud in a literal sense. I can be home alone, sitting in my office, the animals all fast asleep, nothing stirring at all, and the house can still be deafening. “Wash me!” comes the soft, somewhat muffled cry of the laundry [...]