I found a recipe online for the pita bread but this is actually a copy of Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid’s recipe which appears in Baking with Julia. The person who posted it just cut off several paragraphs, so it… Continue reading

Here’s the recipe for the gyro meat [here it is roasting in the oven — it was too cold outside to fire up the grill, so i set it on a roasting pan where the fat could drain away. The… Continue reading

for the chocoholic, in the tradition of flourless cakes…. (this one is almost flourless), from the book Baking with Julia, recipe by Lora Brody. i’m glad i found a (properly credited) recipe online — scroll down — so i don’t… Continue reading

and as ginataan… Continue reading

The Rice Bible by Christian Teubner et al. First impressions: Very thorough, very comprehensive, very pro-genetic engineering. What he says about finding and developing “Rice 2000” (slated for around 2008) makes some sense, especially for the neediest countries, but I’m… Continue reading

Chinese CabbageSeeds of Change 2003. wintersowed 2005. Continue reading

seeds from exchange fall 2004. wintersowed 2005. Continue reading

seeds from JLHudson(?) 2004. wintersowed 2005. Continue reading

received from plant exchange, september 2004. Continue reading

I got 4 free roseplants from Freecycle. 2 seem to be thriving, with shoots coming out the bottom. No idea what I’m supposed to do with the larger twigs. Maybe I’ll prune them later if no green appears. Don’t know… Continue reading