A few weeks ago I listened to Louis Fresco’s TEDtalk on “Feeding the Whole World.”  By the way, if you don’t listen to the TED podcast please subscribe to it now).  I’ve been thinking about it ever since and have more than once used it as part of an argument on behalf of responsible corporate [...]

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As if we needed more evidence that I am an 85-year old lady: my new electric kettle makes me unbelievably happy.  I’ll freely admit that it is probably more electric kettle than I really need– I mean it isn’t like I can actually taste the difference in my 212 degree made coffee and 200 degree [...]

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Wow, Bashfully Designed is one year old today… Hard to believe that in the last year I’ve put up 170 posts (better than I thought I’d to, if we’re being honest) and shared 40 poems.  I’ve also started to face up to a few of my creativity fears (ahem failure ahem), and to at least [...]

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It might not be the world’s most beautiful garden, but I’m hoping we get enough herbs from it to justify the $20 I had to spend getting it all ready.  I’ve planted basil in the long rectangular pot, some cilantro in the circular pot next to it, and a radish plant in that pot on [...]

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Isn’t it delightful when you find a recipe that is your new comfort food?  Something that, once you taste it, you think, “my G-d, why haven’t I been eating this since birth?!”  I suspect that Orangette’s book is going to make me say this a lot.  Last Wednesday I made her (um, her husband’s) cabbage [...]

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“Just Eggs” from Nick Wheeler’s Flickr stream.
Licensed via the Creative Commons.
For too long egg salad has been relegated to the world of “Things Your Grandmother Ate.”  I do not understand this, eggs are full of protein, cheap (oh-so important in this economy), near impossible to mess up too badly, and reasonably healthy (if you [...]

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And now for something a little less militaristic…  On Sunday some friends got together for the 2009 Great Chocolate Chip Cookie Bake-Off.  Jon and our friend Steph both think they have the best cookies, so we put them to the test.  We also used the Safeway tube cookie dough and the recipe from the back [...]

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This is not a particulary pretty soup… it isn’t even all that pretty to make.  However, I promise that if you’ll just trust me you’ll be very happy you tried.  I jazzed up the photos (in homage to Orangette) by running them through the Poladroid but it occurs to me that it didn’t do all [...]

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When it looks like this outside…

I put these on…

And make my favorite lunch…

Not so bad for a cloudy, wet, and cold Monday in November…

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Yeah, I crossed that line.  I’m making my own granola.  This is from a recipe I found over at Angry Chicken via her recipe cheat sheet.  I wish I was like 1/3 as self-sufficient as she is!  I felt pretty cool eating my own yogurt AND my own granola for breakfast today.  It is pretty [...]

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