So Today I Made...
May. 27th, 2012 10:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberfocus...one batch of cornbread blueberry muffins, peanut butter cookies, hotdog and hamburger buns and two loaves of bread. I am a machine. I also put a full Sunday dinner on the table (beef chuck pot roast, corn on the cob, broccoli and cauliflower. Everything was organic except the corn, but at least it was from California.
I have been doing a lot of reading about sustainable farming this month and about the way the food industry works in America. Books I've read lately besides The Omnivore's Dilemma, are In Defense of Food, An Everlasting Meal, To Buy or Not to Buy Organic, The Cook's Illustrated Poultry Cookbook (which has a lot of non-cooking information in it, really), and I am about to start American Wasteland. We joined the local food co-op as well. I am having far more fun than a person should wandering the aisles there and reading labels. And grinding my own peanut butter was a blast. Yes, I am easily amused. But you have not lived until you've made peanut butter cookies with freshly ground peanut butter, a pasture-raised organic duck egg, and pure organic raw cane sugar. Superb!
I am starting to think about writing again. It's been almost a full month and it's been a good break. Not quite sure if I am totally ready to get back into it, but thinking about it without dread or apathy is kind of nice. Maybe I will take a shot at it soon. Not going to put pressure on myself though. It'll happen when it happens and the words decide it's time to flow again.
I have been doing a lot of reading about sustainable farming this month and about the way the food industry works in America. Books I've read lately besides The Omnivore's Dilemma, are In Defense of Food, An Everlasting Meal, To Buy or Not to Buy Organic, The Cook's Illustrated Poultry Cookbook (which has a lot of non-cooking information in it, really), and I am about to start American Wasteland. We joined the local food co-op as well. I am having far more fun than a person should wandering the aisles there and reading labels. And grinding my own peanut butter was a blast. Yes, I am easily amused. But you have not lived until you've made peanut butter cookies with freshly ground peanut butter, a pasture-raised organic duck egg, and pure organic raw cane sugar. Superb!
I am starting to think about writing again. It's been almost a full month and it's been a good break. Not quite sure if I am totally ready to get back into it, but thinking about it without dread or apathy is kind of nice. Maybe I will take a shot at it soon. Not going to put pressure on myself though. It'll happen when it happens and the words decide it's time to flow again.
