Longtime readers here know that baking bread is one of my passions (Susan might call it an obsession, one of my many), but I’m also I’m a reasonably competent cook (not as good as Susan, but I try…); I make my own fresh pasta and my own pizza, among other
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THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: Cooking to Grieve and Remember
Yesterday (I think it was yesterday – time is a blur nowadays), I was in the car on my way to buy groceries listening to a show called Q on CBC radio. They were playing an interview with the Korean-American author, Michelle Zauner. When Michelle isn’t writing books, she is
Continue readingScripturient: Musings on Pizza No. 2
Pizza was one of those things I thought about when my hot flashes from my ongoing hormone treatment awoke me in the middle of the night this past week. Several times, in fact. As I tossed and turned I thought about my pizza-making process as I recently described here and
Continue readingScripturient: Musings on Making Pizza
I have to admit that I like pizza a lot. Well, I guess most of us do. I like cheese, and I liked cooked cheese even more, and I like vegetables, so pizza is up there as a mealtime favourite. We don’t eat it frequently, perhaps once month or less
Continue readingScripturient: Musings on Making Pasta, No. 5
I was back at making pasta this week, trying a slightly different recipe, and working on honing my skills with the pasta machine. As well, I was hoping to get my recently-acquired mafaldine cutter attachment operating correctly (you might recall reading about the problems I had with it clogging in
Continue readingScripturient: Musings on Making Bread and Chili, No. 1
Longtime readers here know that before my surgery last summer, along with my pasta making I was an avid, if not always entirely competent, baker. I mostly made bread from “scratch” but sometimes for convenience used an electric bread maker. I made all sorts of bread in previous years, including
Continue readingScripturient: Review: The Ultimate Pasta Machine Cookbook
The Ultimate Pasta Machine Cookbook: 100 Recipes for Every Kind of Amazing Pasta Your Pasta Maker Can Make, by Lucy Vaserfirer, Paperback, 208 pages, Published in 2020 by Harvard Common Press, Beverly, MA, USA. I am disappointed. At almost $40, I don’t believe the book delivers what the title promises. I
Continue readingScripturient: Musings on Making Pasta, No. 4
I made another batch of pasta this weekend to test my new mafaldine cutter, but it proved problematic . The dough jammed in it against the blades, so I had to switch to my lasagne ricce cutter, which worked perfectly. Because it got so deeply stuck, I had to remove
Continue readingScripturient: Musing on Making Pasta No. 2
In its most basic form, pasta can be made from only two ingredients: flour and water. But while true, it’s deceptively simple, and far from the tastiest or most expressive pasta you can make. Flour is delightfully complicated; there is some interesting chemistry at work within flour and it’s fun
Continue readingScripturient: Musings on Making Pasta No. 1
Long-time readers here may recall that I used to post about making my own pasta and bread quite frequently some years back. Last spring when I was diagnosed with cancer and then went through surgery and then radiation, I stopped doing both. This week, I finally got back to
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Read This And Live (Well!)
Verbiage, verbiage… Diets, diets, BS and fads…. We live in a society where half-truths, illusions, propaganda and lies account for the overwhelming majority of information, “news”, “analysis”, and “expert” opinion. To sift through the cesspool that is modern society to find wisdom, knowledge, understanding, truth, or simple honesty, or sanity,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Secret of Sushi
Such a treat, I do love me some sushi.
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: I AM NOT A CAREGIVER (BUT I COOK): NATIONAL CAREGIVER MONTH!
This year for National Caregivers Month, I want to reflect on why so many of us do not identify as caregivers. ‘Caregiver’ is a problematic word for lots of reasons, not least among them that it seems to betray the love and loyalty we feel towards those who need our
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Cupcakes – Literal Violence
This all goes away once you accept the factual nature of biological reality. For instance the term woman does, in fact, equal adult human female. When your faux-progressive ideology takes a left turn away from material reality then you get bullshit laden threads like this one. https://creepychick420.tumblr.com/post/171844043629/harriet-hirshman
Continue readingScripturient: Pollan’s Food fallacies
“Don’t overlook the oily little fishes,” is rule 32 in Michael Pollan’s small book, “Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual” (Penguin Books, 2009). I recently acquired a copy. I’ve read Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and have his In Defence of Food on my shelves for summer reading and have two
Continue readingTHE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM A Blog by Donna Thomson: Helping Your Loved One to Give During the Holidays
I posted this two years ago, but the message is still just as vital, I think. How can we help our loved ones to give during the Holidays? Giving is a powerful sign of personhood, of contribution and our loved ones want to give those they love, too! How can
Continue readingScripturient: Spiralizing out of control
I bought myself a spiral veggie cutter recently – a spiralizer, they’re called – after hearing a friend rave on about how wonderful his was. And since I both like to cook and I’m a gadget freak, I thought I ought to get myself o…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Who Knew that Salsa Had a Spectrum?
Dryly amusing. 🙂 Filed under: Humour Tagged: Cooking, Humour
Dead Wild Roses: Things I Need to Try Before I Die – Spaghettieis
Looks like you may have to pack extra insulin, but it looks like it is worth it. 🙂 Spaghettieis is a German ice cream made to look like a plate of spaghetti. In the dish, vanilla ice cream is extruded through a modified Spätzle press or potato ricer, giving it the appearance of spaghetti. It […]