Inaugural Treat Revealed
Ok, folks – I said I’d tell you today what I had for a gluten-laden snack last week. I’m not proud of my spur-of-the-moment choice, not at all. Any of the other choices would have been better except the KFC meal – I’ll never, ever eat commercially-produced chicken again. Ever. The only meat I will [...]
Inaugural Treat
Time for a contest! A week after learning my sensitivity to gluten is approaching normal, I celebrated by consuming which of the following previously-verboten food items: A 3-piece original-flavored KFC meal, complete with extra biscuit 4 Krispy Kreme donuts (you can really taste the arteriosclerosis!) A pint of Ben & Jerry’s chocolate fudge brownie ice cream [...]
Rage Against the Gluten
Last weekend, I was listening to The Splendid Table, a food and cooking show on NPR. Lynn Rosetto Casper was interviewing a foodie, who discussed the joys of creating bread dough utilizing the natural bacteria and yeasts floating around our households. I’ve made bread like this before; mixing flour and water and allowing the natural [...]
The Philosophy of Can’t
I was just heating up my wheat-free/gluten-free veggie lasagna in the office kitchen, where there are veggie burgers (with gluten,) and buns (with gluten,) and Zingers (with gluten) and sundry other yummy things (with gluten) lying about. My first thought was a general disappointment; “I can’t have those. I can never have those.” Well, that’s [...]
Cleaning Up My Life
This post first appeared on my other blog, Confounded by Quilting, and basically cemented my desire to have a more appropriate blog title for the homesteady bits of my writing. Like many folks, I took health and well-being for granted in my younger years, and being raised in the middle-class American Midwest, I took many [...]
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Now Reading
Planned books:
- Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food by Wendell Berry
- The Lovely Bones by Sebold Alice
- A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
- Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Current books:
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Vintage) by Stieg Larsson
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Poachers: Stories by Tom Franklin
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Song of Ice and Fire Set: A Game of Thrones, a Clash of Kings, a Storm of Swords, a Feast for Crows, by George R. R. Martin
Recent books:
- Ill Wind by Nevada Barr
- A Superior Death (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Nevada Barr
- Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. by Tom Franklin by Tom Franklin
- Safe from the Sea by Peter Geye
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