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high adventure, fearless cooking, insight and humor accumulated throughout a 27-year journey...
30 January 2010
see? i told you i need to travel more...
visited 22 states (44%)
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29 January 2010
eight.
1. i love Echo Hill Country Store.
2. working on developing new bread recipes.
3. received the brochure about CreationFest. read through & realized how very high-school-oriented it is.
4. acquired my Berks County library card today.
5. enjoyed browsing around in Young Ones today.
6. so glad my Corolla is old. :o)
7. painting is fun again. loving the dioxazine.
8. i need to go on an adventure soon.
2. working on developing new bread recipes.
3. received the brochure about CreationFest. read through & realized how very high-school-oriented it is.
4. acquired my Berks County library card today.
5. enjoyed browsing around in Young Ones today.
6. so glad my Corolla is old. :o)
7. painting is fun again. loving the dioxazine.
8. i need to go on an adventure soon.
08 January 2010
Bread
Ever since I've realized home-made bread over the past year, I've sort of become disgusted with grocery store breads. Even the ones labeled, "whole wheat! multigrain!" are far from wholesome. Just take a look at the ingredients list.
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP
means sugars are added to hyper-speed the yeast's rising. which means flavours, textures, and B vitamins are lost.
The "12 Grain" store breads consist of (again, please read along) Enriched Flour (means iron, thiamine, and other vitamins & minerals must be added back into the flour mix as they have stripped the whole wheat kernels of nutrition) and "2% of less of..." the remaining "11 grains".
I say screw that. Right now I'm rising a loaf of whole barley & brown rice (which i had to simmer for an hour - no instant here!), oats, corn meal, whole grain rye flour, wheat bran and a wheat flour. It's SO grainy; no "2% or less" at all!
...i sure hope it tastes good...
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP
means sugars are added to hyper-speed the yeast's rising. which means flavours, textures, and B vitamins are lost.
The "12 Grain" store breads consist of (again, please read along) Enriched Flour (means iron, thiamine, and other vitamins & minerals must be added back into the flour mix as they have stripped the whole wheat kernels of nutrition) and "2% of less of..." the remaining "11 grains".
I say screw that. Right now I'm rising a loaf of whole barley & brown rice (which i had to simmer for an hour - no instant here!), oats, corn meal, whole grain rye flour, wheat bran and a wheat flour. It's SO grainy; no "2% or less" at all!
...i sure hope it tastes good...
15 December 2009
hey sugar
i am so sick of reading "sugar/high fructose corn syrup/maltose/maltodextrin/cane juice/fruit concentrate" on every single pre-packaged food available.
it's even in bread. bread you buy at the store.
this is why i do my own baking.
i fuind it scummy how food companies will claim "made with fruit" on the front label, when on the back you read "fruit concentrate" which is fruit boiled down & sifted until there are no vitamins, no fiber, not any good thing left except the fructose.
it's sick. it's ugly. it's because consumers are addicted to sugars, which makes more money for the food companies.
what an ugly, distasteful truth.
it's even in bread. bread you buy at the store.
this is why i do my own baking.
i fuind it scummy how food companies will claim "made with fruit" on the front label, when on the back you read "fruit concentrate" which is fruit boiled down & sifted until there are no vitamins, no fiber, not any good thing left except the fructose.
it's sick. it's ugly. it's because consumers are addicted to sugars, which makes more money for the food companies.
what an ugly, distasteful truth.
20 November 2009
What to Eat
Currently reading What to Eat by Marion Nestle. She's a professor of nutrition at NYU. Cool.
Apparently she's done all sorts of extensive research on what food companies want us to think and buy, who owns food companies, why grocery stores are all laid out the same way, and what goes into genetically modified, organic, conventional, and local foods.
If you've ever been to a grocery store in North America, it probably has either flowers or the bakery section by the entrance [to stimulate appetite by smell], long long aisles of prepackaged foods [to keep you interested while walking along slowly], bright shining bins of produce [waxed over & labelled with various countries & states of nonlocal origin] and all that placed between you and the important stuff [milk, bread, eggs, meats - all located furthest away from the entrances] so that you look at more things they have to offer than you need.
The author states that 70% of grocery store customers create lists before shopping. 10% of shoppers don't buy more than their list includes.
Next time: Sugar - How invasive it is in our diets.
Apparently she's done all sorts of extensive research on what food companies want us to think and buy, who owns food companies, why grocery stores are all laid out the same way, and what goes into genetically modified, organic, conventional, and local foods.
If you've ever been to a grocery store in North America, it probably has either flowers or the bakery section by the entrance [to stimulate appetite by smell], long long aisles of prepackaged foods [to keep you interested while walking along slowly], bright shining bins of produce [waxed over & labelled with various countries & states of nonlocal origin] and all that placed between you and the important stuff [milk, bread, eggs, meats - all located furthest away from the entrances] so that you look at more things they have to offer than you need.
The author states that 70% of grocery store customers create lists before shopping. 10% of shoppers don't buy more than their list includes.
Next time: Sugar - How invasive it is in our diets.
17 November 2009
failure
failure: emily drinks real milk, phil drinks real milk,
french dairy farmers of 1944 drink real milk;
milk is boiled to scorching, milk is skimmed
milk is bleached, milk is tainted.
failure: using coordinates & clues &
global positioning units for geocaching for hours & finding nothing.
french dairy farmers of 1944 drink real milk;
milk is boiled to scorching, milk is skimmed
milk is bleached, milk is tainted.
failure: using coordinates & clues &
global positioning units for geocaching for hours & finding nothing.
failure: reading "best meteor shower of the decade", reading "11 pm to 4 am",
not reading "best view around 4 am", seeing only 4 shooting stars.
not reading "best view around 4 am", seeing only 4 shooting stars.
seeking help in the wrong place, self righteousness, self decay.
failure: landlord remodeling, research demographics &
rent rates, nowhere to go, close store, lay off employees.
rent rates, nowhere to go, close store, lay off employees.
failure: job searching, another opportunity for failure?
drinking real fresh milk straight from the milk bucket.
23 October 2009
palm 93
the Lord reigns, He is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed in majesty and is armed with strength.
the world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
Your throne was established long ago; You are from all eternity.
the seas have lifted up, o Lord, the seas have lifted up their voice; the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.
mightier than the thunder of the great waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea - the Lord on high is mighty.
Your statutes stand firm; holiness adorns Your house for endless days, o Lord.
the world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
Your throne was established long ago; You are from all eternity.
the seas have lifted up, o Lord, the seas have lifted up their voice; the seas have lifted up their pounding waves.
mightier than the thunder of the great waters, mightier than the breakers of the sea - the Lord on high is mighty.
Your statutes stand firm; holiness adorns Your house for endless days, o Lord.
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