- A second appearance on a class panel for the Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives: A Food Systems Approach to Cooking class. I persuaded my friend and fellow food blogger Charles to take the class this spring, and he's been blogging up a storm. The HFHL institute is also offering a one credit class this fall: Cooking on a Student's Budget.
- The Life-Changing Loaf of Bread. I've made this "bread" four times now, never the same way twice, and never way the recipe suggests (though I do weigh the ingredients). HT to my colleague Jesse Haas for sharing this! I've been eating it for breakfast almost every day for weeks.
- A moss garden?! Our housemates invited a landscaping friend over to give us ideas about how to make the yard more interesting and less grassy. Staring at a soggy patch of decaying wood chips, I had a brainwave - a moss garden! "You could grow ferns, too," Mr. Landscape added. I have no idea how to make this happen.
- A shift in priorities. I attended a conference of the National Cooperative Grocers Association the other week, and something clicked around Hour 5. I'd been struggling with the feeling that the Hampden Park Co-op board was not the right place for me, that co-ops just weren't my "thing," that I was taking time away from food systems consulting by pouring time into my duties as board chair. But that day, I realized what a boon to my career being on the board actually is. I
couldwill get so much out of my experience by putting my entrepreneurial schemes on hold for a year or two and unabashedly embracing co-op work.
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| Photo by Kim Unertl. |
What are you excited about this week?
I am excited about the prospects of 70 degree weather this weekend and an unexpected day off. As well as cooking; I'm really excited about cooking since we got home from 2 weeks in Europe. And, I'm excited about shopping for an espresso machine: another take home from Europe (espresso is so good!).
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Are you excited about cooking because you weren't able to do it for two weeks while you were in Europe, or because you got incredible ideas from your two weeks in Europe?
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