Cooking Entries
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Cooking with Ba Noi
Friday, June 11th, 2010Life with ba noi is good. She is a kind-hearted grandmother who enjoys growing orchids and pedaling away on her miniature stationary bicycle, among many other things. She also loves to watch Kore...
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Spargel!
Saturday, June 5th, 2010This morning we packed up from our free camp, commuted into town along smooth, shaded bike paths, and headed straight to McDonald's for work and lots of ice cream sundaes. When we're done, we'll sco...
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Patience & Aioli
Sunday, December 20th, 2009I decided the other day that I would whip up a batch of homemade aioli (garlic mayonnaise) so we could garlic-ify a roasted chicken. This sauce, southern French in origin, is traditionally made in a...
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Latkes on the Road
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009I was not inspired to do anything today. This morning all I wanted was to be on the move, adventuring on our bicycles, or be at home. Our waiting-for-gear limbo was driving me crazy. All I could t...
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Tunisian Food
Monday, December 7th, 2009Eating well in Tunisia is proving to be a bit of a challenge. Our normal process of buying groceries and cooking our own meals just doesn't seem to be applicable here. Also, the sun starts setting ...
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Making Jam
Monday, October 12th, 2009Since today was our day off, I decided to make some jam with an unfortunate batch of fruit: two mealy oranges and three mushy, tasteless prune plums. First I peeled the oranges (roughly, with a kni...
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This is Lisa
Friday, September 18th, 2009This is Lisa. Im Tara's mom, and I'm filling in today to allow Tara and Tyler a bit of a break from their usual discipline of daily journaling. Their dedication to daily journaling is impressive....
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Food All Day
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Being the only one in our apartment that a) isn't jet-lagged, and b) hasn't been awake all night long fixing and setting up our new HP Mini 5101 laptop, I bound out of bed this morning refreshed, ful...
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Camp Cookies
Friday, August 28th, 2009Looking for something to do while we wait for our rims, I decided to do some baking today. I thought traditional Jewish jam-filled hamentaschen would be a good idea since we had all the ingredients o...
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Wild & Local Foods
Friday, May 22nd, 2009As I was filling our water bottles this morning a friendly caravanner at our campsite asked me where we were headed. I replied, "in the direction of St. Ives, but we're not sure yet!" He asked wher...
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Food for Thought (and Tummies)
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009Each time I cook something now, I think "I could make this on our trip!" During the day while I'm scanning files, I dream about what I'm going to cook for dinner so that I can make the most efficient...
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Another List: Things to Purchase/Do Upon Arrival
Saturday, February 14th, 2009I've had all of these ideas of things we should buy and things we should do once we arrive in Scotland. They've been floating around in my head and I didn't want to forget any, so I decided to write ...
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Ultralight Alcohol Stove
Monday, November 10th, 2008Tara and I spent all day Saturday working on what was supposed to be a fun learning experience making emergency backup stoves. To our surprise what we wound up with works better than our WhisperLite...
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Winter Camping
Sunday, November 9th, 2008If someone were to ask me, say six months ago, if I would go camping in 20 degree weather, four days in a row, the answer would be a resounding "absolutely not." That is, though, exactly what we hav...