January 10
If you’re serious about the flavor of your coffee or feel like creating a blend of your own, roast it yourself! Organic SumScottra or KonAndreas, anyone?
All you need are “green beans” (unroasted coffee beans) and a hot-air popcorn popper. The beans start at $4.70 / pound for organic / fair trade-certified varieties from sites like BrewOrganic.com. You can probably find a suitable popcorn popper for $5 at Goodwill or even free through your local Freecycle group.
The process is dead simple and takes less than ten minutes, too. Why not give it a go?
Hyper-detailed instructions here; simpler info here.
(ht: LifeHacker)
August 2
As a college student, I stumble upon many strange recipes in my culinary travels. Here is a recipe for a great summer barbecue salad that I stumbled upon last week while staring at a spotty cupboard.
It’s best features: great taste, dirt cheap, a little spicy, and it takes 5 minutes to make!
- Start with a salad mix, preferably one loaded with vegetables.
- Cut up and add a fresh Roma tomato.
- Slice a few cubes of pepperjack cheese (Tillamook!)
- Grab a handful of corn tortilla chips, mash them up, and drop them in.
Blue chips add great color.
- Substitute your usual amount of salad dressing with your favorite barbecue sauce and some nice brown mustard.
- Finally, top it off with a bit of salsa.
Enjoy!
April 2
Sorry for the slow update; things have been on the busy side here. That’s not to say that I’ve been eating nothing but salad and pasta. In fact, my roommates and I have cooked quite a bit this weekend.
First up is an incredible salad. I didn’t really have a taste for salad, but I had to design a poster for the Women’s Salad Supper at ECC later this month. I enjoyed it Friday afternoon; ECC enjoyed it Sunday morning and evening
Next are some stuffed peppers:
Here’s a bowl of fruit:
We also made guacamole, sweet corn, and burritos. No pictures of the burritos, sorry. We were too busy enjoying them to get out the camera.
Here’s some banana bread from earlier in the week instead:
Hope all is well with you; look for more soon.
