Food, cooking, eating, and me

Time to plan ahead to grow whole fruit in bottles. Undoubtedly these make great holiday gifts.

How To Put A Whole Fruit Inside A Bottle! - The most popular videos are here
I suggest you try adding some sugar to some of them if you like sweet liqueurs.

I finally did it, figured out how to redo the site in php so I can more easily put new recipes in the recipe index. My goal was to change the appearance as little as possible, and I think I’ve succeeded in that. This blog has not been changed. The biggest difference that you should see (aside from a few ads I’m hoping will defray the cost of the site) is that each of the old pages has a new name. The old page will be redirecting for a while so that people who have bookmarked specific pages can change their bookmarks. Eventually you will not see those redirects anymore.

With the new format, I should be able to put new recipes in the index much more easily. Eventually all the recipes that are mixed into blog entries should end up there, even as I keep making new ones.

Happy gluten-free eating!

I’m sorry, I ate it all before realizing that I ought to snap a photo.

Seriously, the site gets a fair number of hits from people searching for gluten-free and/or dairy-free breakfast options. It seems like what used to be a “balanced” or “square” meal in the old days - eggs, meat, potatoes, juice, bread - has become an artifact preserved only in those museums of culinary archival, restaurants. Nowadays few people eat anything for breakfast besides cold cereal or baked goods.

This morning I had breakfast fried rice. I fried a jumbo breakfast sausage, removed it from the pan and sliced it. In the pan I put some more butter, leftover brown rice, and a cup of chopped green onions. After the rice was hot I added back the sausage and an egg. I stirred until done, seasoning with black pepper and crushed red pepper. No salt was needed as both the rice and sausage were previously seasoned. I served it with a small bowl of fresh pineapple. Yum.

Heres a link to the breakfast fried rice recipe, if you’re a recipe sort of person. There are also bacon, ham, and vegan fried rice variations.