Vegan, Gluten-free cookie bars

I have been on the lookout lately for tasty recipes for gluten-free, dairy-free baked goods.  There seems to be more demand for gluten-free cooking as people become more aware of things like celiac disease and other food intolerences.  Cooking gluten-free is fairly straightforward to come up with recipes for, but baking gluten-free is understandably a bit [...]

Observations on food

The other night, hubby and i watched the first episode of the 100 Mile Diet challenge on food network, where folks in the town of Mission were challenged to eat all local food for 100 days.  It was quite interesting to see people work through the process of thinking about the challenge and signing up.

In the [...]

Stuff coming up in the garden

Well, the weather here has been pretty crappy, but despite the cold temps, spring appears to be on its way (albeit very slowly!).   Spent some time today filling the new beds with the last of the SeaSoil – i had hoped that there would be enough remaining from the 2-yard delivery to finish filling the extra [...]

mid March garden update

Things have been unseasonably cold here this winter/spring, so things have been slow to start in the garden.  It snowed gangbusters here over Christmas, stayed cold thru January, warmed up briefly in February, and then promptly got cold again!  As a result, things have been really slow to come on — probably about 3 weeks behind [...]

Take 2 eggplant and call me in the morning.

Looking thru the fridge this morning, I noticed 2 eggplant that I had bought a few days ago (possibly for the night we had friends over) and promptly forgot about.  As I am the only one who eats eggplant, I decided to make baba ghanoush with them.   The secret to a good texture is to cook [...]