I’ll be tinkering with the site this weekend, so if it looks funny — or disappears altogether, for that matter — just come back in a bit and hopefully all will be well.
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Monthly Archive for February, 2009
This week’s creature is a new one for me. I saw this out at Audubon Acres last weekend and knew it was some kind of a nuthatch, but didn’t find out until I got home to my Sibley Guide that it was a brown-headed nuthatch, an increasingly rare bird found only in the Southeast US and a tiny bit of the Bahamas. According to the maps, I live on the very edge of this bird’s range.
It’s the last few days of February — that and the rain we’re getting today has me thinking that spring is just around the corner! Have a great weekend, filled with fun and Friday Creatures!
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Here’s the final installment of my food porn from Turkey. Represented below is a sampling of a whole bunch of meals over the course of our trip — some my food and some for other people. The thing I like best about Turkish cooking, which shares some with Greek, Spanish and other Mediterranean cuisines, is that it is fairly uncorrupted food — minimally processed, with (at least in the western part of the country) an emphasis on olive oil, fish, fruits, vegetables, herbs and seasonings.
One of my favorites things, after hot, dusty days on my feet, was to sit down in a restaurant and immediately be served fresh cucumber sticks with a dill and yogurt dip. It’s such a simple combination, but so cool and refreshing! The practice of doubling up on the starches/carbs (fries AND rice? really?) is something I haven’t ever seen before, but I was happy to go with the flow.
Continue reading ‘Dinner — a grand food finale’
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I didn’t get to sample much of the snack food in Turkey (a person can only eat a limited number of times in a day!), but I sure enjoyed looking. Toward the end of the week, I did try some of the street corn, and it was really quite delicious, though it was a trick to convince the guy to leave off the generous serving of salt all the other cobs were getting…
Continue reading ‘Snacking and other pleasures’
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I just realized that it’s Wednesday, and I didn’t do anything Wordless. But given all the food photos that are plastered all over the place here (and more on the way!), I think I’m just going to have to skip this week. I’ll be quiet again next hump day…
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Oy, but I was wishing for that buffet (see yesterday’s post) at breakfast time this morning. I was so disheartened by the options I actually had available in my kitchen that I didn’t bother eating at all and now I’m really, really hungry. This next round of pictures is going to be torture (I’m meeting a friend for lunch, so I won’t get to eat for a while yet).
We found quite a few eateries in Turkey where lunch was treated as an art form — with as much attention paid to presentation as to creating delicious and savory food. While it was hard to stick to small meals (when it’s hot and we’re doing a lot of hiking and climbing, I don’t want a lot of food on my stomach), I was happy to find that it was pretty easy to keep to eating light during the day because of all the fruits and veggies that were served with pretty much every meal. (It was sometimes tough, though, getting pictures of the dishes while they were still untouched…)
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So, there’s a food theme that’s materializing this week, so I’m going to go with the flow and put up something that’s long overdue: photos of the food from last summer’s trip to Turkey. I’ll start with breakfast… Brace yourself — whatever you find on the table in the morning is going to be a disappointment after looking at this buffet…
Continue reading ‘More food (breakfast!)’
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I had a great time this evening at “The True Cost of Food” event hosted by the Sierra Club at green|spaces. We watched a short film and then enjoyed an informative discussion with (below) Bill Keener of Sequatchie Cove Farm, Joel Houser of Crabtree Farms and JB Brown of Farmer Brown’s (heh! really!). I’ll have much more on this later, as I feel as though I may be mounted on top of a hobby horse…
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Yeah, so I’m really going to have to see this movie. Everyone keeps saying it is fabulous and now The Academy says so too…
And yay!!! to Sean Penn and Dustin Lance Black (great speeches!!!!) and Milk (so gotta see that one, too!)!
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