All the Food I'm Dreamin' Of...

A list/ode to all the good food that I've been cooking up these past few weeks:

- Veggie clearinghouse soup

- Pressure cooker madness! Chili and potato soup, each in less than 20 minutes

- Pumpkin and squash casserole

- Molasses bread

- Chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies

- Spinach and pea pasta in cream sauce

- Pumpkin oatmeal

- Herb and goat cheese omelettes

- Homemade stovetop granola and yogurt

These delights are not only my procrastination, but my comfort throughout the week. So, readers, what deliciousness have you been dreaming of?

Work and Relaxation

I'm trying something new today! I wrote my blog post and then read it aloud (speech-like) in a podcast format - this time it's on activist work and relaxation. I've done this before with fictional stories, but not as much with creative non-fiction, so this is my stab at it. Let's hope that after a few tries I can get into a more natural speaking rhythm! Transcript after the jump.

A Feast for the Eyes: Cooking Photographs

This week, I want to give a shout-out to Smitten Kitchen, Joy the Baker, and The Pioneer Woman for being amazing cooking blogs that have provided me with recipes to cook with and the inclination to photograph everything (especially when it comes out deliciously). Take a gander at what I've been making since Christmas Eve.

Here's a list of all the foods I've made/improv'ed in the past few weeks:

Hummus | Pita | Mushroom artichoke pasta | Artichoke olive crostini (mine came out blegh, but yours might be better) | Chicken tikka masala | Cheese grits | Strawberry yogurt parfaits | Pumpkin oatmeal (in our rice cooker!) | Homemade Poptarts | Veggie stew clearinghouse (for all those random leftover veggies) | Spinach artichoke dip | Shrimp and pasta in cream sauce | Chicken and noodles (almost a soup, but the noodles soaked up all the broth - still tasty, though!) | Pesto goat cheese pizza | Cornbread | Black bean barley soup

...stay tuned for more.