When I go grocery shopping and I see vegetables packaged in plastic it stresses me out quite a bit. I’ve stopped going to the local supermarket for this very reason. Other supermarkets like Sprouts and Whole Foods don’t use as much plastic for their fresh produce but jeeze! – the cost. Whole Foods ain’t cheap…
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portugal (lisbon) day 9
Street art / social commentary images taken on a walk around Lisbon. This illustration perplexes me a bit, though. Is it a hanging eye-ball, head? This broke my heart. A lot. A ubiquitous image, I know. The Portuguese sailing ship sits on almost all street lamps. I wish I knew the symbolism of the flower…
japan – day 19 (kyoto / okayama)
Today we leave Kyoto for Okayama. I’m very sad to leave Kyoto behind. It’s a lovely city with many things and places to discover. Two nights ago, I went to have one last meal at my favorite udon place – and for some reason, I got quite emotional about it. This little place was my…
japan – day 15
Back at Murmur Coffee today. Tea instead of coffee. I like how the tea appears striped in the cup. I decide to take a different route to the busier shopping district closer to the old Airbnb. These berries are everywhere now. I often seem them in ikibana arrangements and here, growing in bunches outside a…
japan – day 14
Check out of the ol’ Airbnb is tomorrow. I guess like most things when given enough time, it’s grown on me. The one thing it has going for it is that it’s in a great location. That I will miss. I walked the 1.3 miles to ask the other hotel we’re moving to whether they…
japan – day 12
What you see is what you get. Or is it? I’m at my favorite little udon place, less than a minute’s walk from where I’m staying. I’ve been eating there quite regularly so much so that when I walk in this evening, chef points to me and tells a couple at the counter, “Very often…
garlic confit
Confit began as a way to preserve food before refrigeration. Typically, confit is a method of cooking meat or vegetables in fat for several hours over low heat. This is fundamentally the difference between fried food and confit. The french word for jam is confiture so this term also applies to cooking fruit in a…
gari (japanese ginger pickle)
Gari is most often served alongside sushi or sashimi; however, I recently made a simple dish of stir fried snow peas and added these ginger pickles. 1. cook diced onion in some olive oil until onion pieces start to caramelize2. half the snow peas3. add to the pan and cook for about 3-4 minutes 4….
the ‘almost no-recipe life’
This recipe comes with a few disclaimers and two adjustments. Disclaimer 1 – Originality This recipe isn’t mine. I saw it on Twitter a few months ago. It was a BuzzFeed Recipe (I think!). My version of the dish is an approximation because I didn’t save the original video to reference it. Disclaimer 2 –…