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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Sustainability festival

Saturday, January 17, 2009

The local Hare Krishna community has taken a strong leadership role in sustainable and alternative living. Today they had an all-day “Local Sustainability Festival” at their temple near Sandy Ridge, about eight miles from my place. There were speakers on gardening, rainwater harvesting, farming with draft animals, and seed-saving techniques. Stokes County’s Hare Krishna community […]

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The end of an American (and Carolina) tradition

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

One of my two Carolina Porch Rockers, on my back deck The North Carolina company that made the famous Kennedy Rockers is going out of business. Last month, the P&P Chair Co. of Asheboro, North Carolina, said that it’s closing after 82 years. Partly it was the recession, and partly it was the death of […]

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What they're eating in the south of France #4

Sunday, January 11, 2009

Turnips, onions, parsnips, celery I had asked my friend in Perpignan if she would be so kind as to take her camera next time she went to an outdoor market. Anivid is an excellent photographer and really knows how to tell a story with a camera, though she was never, like me, a journalist. Here […]

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How about some microwave cake?

Sunday, January 11, 2009

A week or so ago, a friend forwarded me one of those Internet emails that everyone forwards all over the place. It was a recipe for a chocolate microwave cake, with very appealing photographs. I couldn’t get it out of my mind. I had never heard of making cake in a microwave, but the recipe […]

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Rain

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Heavy rain during the last two days has raised the water level in the little stream below my house.

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Fritters again

Monday, January 5, 2009

These experimental fritters were a part of two separate quests — the quest for a hearty breakfast low in simple carbs, and the quest for traditional comfort foods that use sweet potatoes instead of white potatoes. Potato salad using sweet potatoes was totally agreeable. This morning I made fried potato cakes with sweet potatoes. As […]

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What they're eating in the south of France #3

Monday, January 5, 2009

A galette, traditional in Perpignan during L’Épiphanie.

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