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March 15, 2011

recipes, pi & vi

Filed under: Entertainment,Grub,Radical Unschooling — Tags: , , , , , , , , — michele james-parham @ 3:35 pm

So, i’ve been looking for some different things to cook lately… kind of bored with food and i love food. i’ve found a couple new things that are being veganized and added to the shopping list for this week.

Saag – making this for soup sunday (every sunday is soup day here at the parham palace).

Tortilla & Black Bean Pie - making this on friday evening (I don’t have a spring form pan, but i figure i can make do without one).

I’m looking for a couple ideas for next week and also a couple ideas for a tasty, but cheap dish that can feed a small army – please bombard me with recipes.

*don’t worry about whether or not your recipe is vegetarian/vegan, if things need to be altered to suit the taste of those eating it, i am quite capable of substituting things around.

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marital bliss

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still can’t find the gorram camera battery charger. i’d lose my fracking ass if it wasn’t attached. (wow! that was two sci-fi swear words back to back… i am so much the shazbot)

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helped the kid put together a blog post for Pi day, yesterday. yeah, it’s a day late for you, if you haven’t already seen it, but it’s still cool. here it lives.

and on that note, Elijah and I both think you should check out the lovely and talented Vi Hart; her videos are amazing and a beautiful articulation of the shite running around in my head all day long, every day. enjoy.

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March 2, 2011

wordless wednesday 03.02.11

Filed under: Grub,Monkey Platters,Photographs,Radical Unschooling — Tags: , , , , — michele james-parham @ 6:18 pm

Wordless Wednesday

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February 27, 2011

pink toast, it’s a phenomenon

Filed under: Grub — Tags: , , , — michele james-parham @ 8:51 pm

My status update on the Book-o-Faces said, “is pink toast. Yum.” and I posted that figuring people would know what the hell ‘pink toast’ was. For some odd reason, I decided to ‘google’ ‘pink toast’ and see what came up. Uh, apparently myself and the waitress who offered me pink toast a billion years ago are the only two people who know what pink toast is (well, my Dear Other Half does too, but that’s only because of me).

I can tell you that it is not:

a band from Ohio
party inspirations
cute shit on Flickr/Etsy (but, you can totally buy me a slice of pink toast)

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Around this house, pink toast is simply toast with jelly (strawberry being the best, but the jelly doesn’t *have to* be pink) and with or without butter.

I did find a couple variations that involved toast while I was searching the interwebs.

PINK TOAST
Mix milk with small amount of red food coloring. Have children paint the bread and then then toast it. Put out the strawberry jam to go with it! (Kid’s Activities)

and

(Pink toast = whole wheat toast with strawberry cream cheese) (Bailey Boo and Monkey, Too!)

I also found a few random signs that it could also be poached salmon on toast, but yuck and why!?

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Do *you* call it ‘pink toast’? What did you think ‘pink toast’ meant before you read the post? Do you have any information about the origins of the term? Are you a waitress or diner cook and use the term yourself?

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February 12, 2011

books, soup, sony and stuff

Filed under: Entertainment,Grub,Life — Tags: , , , , , , , , — michele james-parham @ 11:45 pm

potato & leek soup*

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did yinz know that Sony is a crybaby?

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books arrived today. Women Who Run With the Wolves (which I mentioned here), Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women’s Lives and Opening Up (which I had a copy of ages ago, but I’ve decided to read it again – rereading this book actually makes polyamory, in any shade, less attractive and that’s not the feeling I walked away with when I read it back in 2008… there’s a lot of “just get over it” in the book – rather invalidating for a lot of people I would assume… hhhmmmm… and I’m a huge fan of Tristan and her work).

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cuddle fart

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I’m thinking about trying to do the Friday Fill-Ins… I’ll give it a go this coming Friday and we’ll see what happens.

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* and no, I didn’t forget to link to a picture or recipe. I made potato & leek soup, was eating it while blogging and thought I should pass along the concept of such wholesome goodness… that is all.

UPDATE: apparently, I’ve done a Friday Fill-In before! Well, we’ll try that again ;-)

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February 6, 2011

soup’s up & pink floyd teaches about education

Filed under: Education,Entertainment,Grub,Radical Unschooling — Tags: , , , , , , , , , — michele james-parham @ 6:17 pm

I made soup today.

1lb or 2.5 C cooked lentils
3/4 C cooked brown rice
3/4 C thinly sliced carrot
1 leek, thinly sliced (about a cup)
1/2 a medium sized onion, diced
garlic (I’d suppose as much as you like, I would have used 3 or 4 cloves, but saved it for another meal and used 1 TBS of garlic powder instead)
12 oz mushrooms sliced (any mushrooms will do; I had crimini)
4 C veggie broth
3 C water (or all your liquid could be broth)
1/2 TBS sea salt
1 tsp cracked pepper
olive oil

saute onion, leek & garlic in olive oil. when those are almost translucent, toss in carrots, mushrooms, salt & pepper and cover & continue to cook all that down.

add the rest and bring to a boil. serve with some yummy bread, toast or crackers – i’m making me a sandwich on the side.

enjoy.

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Elijah had a revelation about education:

Elijah: hey, what’s that song, ‘we don’t need no education’?
Me: I’ll look it up for you.
E: but, we do need education!
E: (after watching the video) okay, maybe not that kind of education!

thank you, Pink Floyd.

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Password Reuse

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I was unawares about a cult phenomenon around ‘alot’ until my Dear Other Half showed me the light and I read this blog post. I knew that it is quite common for people to misspell ‘a lot’, but I had no idea that the misspelling has been personified in a sense…  The Internet is a beautiful place.

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thank you to those who made my birthday week great; especially when it wasn’t so great & i needed to cry.

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hoping this week holds all kind of greatness.

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July 29, 2010

CSA 6, 7 and 8 of 2010

Filed under: Grub,Photographs,Pittsburghian — Tags: , , , , , , , — michele james-parham @ 8:43 pm

2010CSA-6

CSA Share 6 (18 more to go)

Blueberries
Wax Beans
Beets w/ Greens
Carrots w/ Greens
Shallots
Garlic
Patty Pan Squash
Cucumbers
Zucchini
Peaches
Green Tomato

2010CSA-7

CSA Share 7 (17 more to go)

Chard
Hungarian Wax Peppers
Garlic Scapes
Tomatoes
Onion
Salad Mix
Green Beans
Green Bell Peppers
Cucumbers
Blueberries
Cabbage
New Red Potatoes

2010CSA-8

CSA Share 8 (16 more to go)

Sweet Corn
Basil
Mixed Beets w/ Greens
Red Onions
Peaches
Cucumbers
Zucchini
Jalapeño
Carrots
Green Bell Peppers
Red Cherry Tomatoes
Orange Cherry Tomatoes

(Not Pictured: One Jalapeño, One Cucumber, One Bell Pepper and Half of both Tomatoes. Those went to a friend.)

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