Tea time

I’m wondering about any thoughts or ideas anyone has about tea. What should tea do for you, how should it make you feel? what makes a good tea pot? what should your tea pot look like? do you have a personal ceremony for drinking tea? did tea give you your first kiss when you were [...]

Let’s hear it for edible flowers

So, when you’re little and you grow up in California they teach you all about the yucca plant (aka the indian* supermarket). You can make anything out this plant.. soap, rope, needles, weapons, bunk beds, etc.  and you can eat the flowers. They have this sorta sweet crunchy lettuce-like thing going on and taste awesome [...]

Shabbat Shabooty

Vegetarian Eggrolls
1 package of 15 eggroll wrappers |||| 1 1/2 cup sweet cabbage, chopped |||| 3/4 cup celery, finely chopped |||| 1/2 cup green onions, finely chopped |||| 1 can of water chestnuts, finely chopped |||| 1/3 cup carrots, finely chopped |||| 1/3 cup sprouts, finely chopped |||| 2 teaspoons garlic |||| 1 teaspoon  chili powder [...]

on the radar

I’ve been thinking about this lately: Crunchy Nutella. Imagine improving on the practically perfect food spread with chunks of hazelnuts. It would be like the chocolate version of crunchy peanut butter. First question, gross or God’s gift to humankind?Discuss. Second question, Why haven’t those Italian Nutella maker people come up with this already? Maybe they tried making crunchy Nutella and there was a [...]