Archive for July, 2010
Eating on a Budget in a Budget Friendly Place
Richmond is not New York. It’s not even Paris or London. It’s much cheaper by comparison and so when you’re out of work and crunched for time between episodes of Jerry Springer and Maury Povich, you need to find places that offer good food for an even better price. And NOT FAST FOOD! Of course [...]
Eating in Richmond
Honoring Consumerism in Tiny Bird Bites.
Friday was the birthday of the sociologist and economist, Thorstein Veblen. (from wikipedia) Besides his technical work he was a popular and witty critic of capitalism, as shown by his best known book The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). … Continue reading 
Chickenfoot Soup
Who’s That Man in My Room?
Staying in a house with eight guys has to be a little like living in a frat house, even with my sister here to help represent. The huge TV is always tuned to some sporting event (thankfully usually with the sound turned down), the drinking is pretty mu…
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In the Groove
The fed-ex man always seem to make me grin, but yesterday’s delivery had me smiling from ear to ear! My first ever purchase from Lululemon, the Reverse Groove Shorts, arrived!! I’d heard great things about Lululemon products from lots of trust-worthy ladies but hadn’t bit the bullet and bought something of my own until this [...]
Eating Bird Food
Creme Brulee
In the spring of ‘09 we had hoped to do one of our podcasts, where we would featureasparagus and eggs. Asparagus, because it’s the ultimate of spring’s special foods. Eggs were also chosen because during the spring, with all the fresh green grass, and …
Richmond Food Collective
Pesto
Ah, pesto. It has to be one of my all time favorite things. As far as favorite foods goes, it may have even beat out my nearly life long favorite of sauerkraut with mashed potatoes and knackwursts. It’s been well over ten years since I’ve had knackwurs…
Richmond Food Collective
Three Monkeys!
Good morning!! Ahhh Saturday mornings… you make life complete Well before I head off to the farmer’s market with Mini-Fanatic, how about a recap of our night out last night? On the agenda, Three Monkeys! This is a restaurant this is a block over from my old row house in The Fan area of downtown Richmond and [...]
CookingFanatic
What’s Going On 7.31.10
Here we go again, another link post to get you out and about in the wonderful world of positive body image blogging. My list is short and sweet but very much worth the read. Around Here I wrote a guest post at Health for the Whole Self this week that you should check out. It [...]
Honoring Health
Cafe Rustica Redux
As anyone who has read my notes on Richmond restaurants knows, Andy Howell’s Café Rustica is among my favorite spots in the city. Compared to most restaurants of comparable pedigree, Rustica churns out consistently excellent food for better prices. I …
impolitic eye
Beach House Chatter
That beach nap I was counting on so much never quite happened. Oh, I made it here just fine and spent the afternoon on the beach with my sister and brother-in-law and their seven guy friends (why they have nothing but guy friends is a sociological stud…
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Traverse City Inspired Cookies
Anyone and everyone who knows me knows one things: I LOOOOOVE COOKIES!!! Russian tea cookies, oatmeal cranberry cookies, chocolate chip cookies…yum yum. So the other night I got a craving – a cookie craving. But this time, I wanted to make something…
Finding Delicious
Lunching on the Intercoastal Waterway
Almost six hours at the National last night plus barely three hours of sleep meant that a beach nap was seriously in order today. Conveniently, I had plans to leave this morning for the beach to visit my sister and her husband and their gaggle of male …
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book reviews.
hey all! tgif!mom update: to all those that prayed and kept her in your thoughts, thank you! she is doing AMAZING. this morning she was up dancing, picking peppers in her garden, and generally trying to keep all of us in line 
giveaway revi…
Clarity in Creation
Red, White and Brew Update
This just in from Kyndra with Sam’s Sausages and Haven Farm:We have just ( in the past month) started attending the 17th Street Farmer’s Market’s Friday night Red, White and Brew. We sell fresh raw bulk sausage to take home and cook as well as grilled…
Richmond Food Collective
News You Can’t Use
I have started a second blog, with what I hope will be daily snapshots (crappy, natch) of things Miss Pooch and I see as we are out and about. We’ve come across opossums in trash cans, blue herons, and more vomiting homeless women than I care to remember, so who knows what could happen. http://tarryandtoddle.blogspot.com/
Squeaky Peanut
Flounder with Cilantro Curry Topping & Toasted Coconut
I’m always looking for new fish recipes and this is yet another great one from Cooking Light. Sometimes as we all know though, recipes don’t always go quite as planned. I had prepped the topping, and everything was going smoothly until …
One Couple's Kitchen
Scary Storms & Spicy Pasta Bakes
Wow friends, I sure am happy that it’s Friday!! And also that this past Thursday is over… Richmond got slammed with one of the worst storms I’ve seen in a long time yesterday. Right before rush hour it rolled in and left very shortly after that, but not without some major damage to the entire [...]
CookingFanatic
Talk About Coming Back With a Bang!
So I feel like my life really couldn’t get much more lucky than it has been of late. Then low and behold I was contacted by the fabulous people over at CSN about hosting a giveaway! I have seen it before on other blogs and was so happy to get the opp…
mommy gourmet
{friday poll} Recipes
Making peace with food and enjoying what you eat is an integral part of intuitive eating. And through my own process of learning to listen to my body, I’ve learned that creating and sharing recipes is one of my favorite pass times. I love every part of it, from coming up with my next recipe [...]
Honoring Health
Hit by the Unexpected at the National
I didn’t expect to be at the National for 5 3/4 hours. so I’ll do the abridged version of a really interesting night full of unexpected surprises.Doors were at 7 and NYC’s the Postelles were to take the stage at 8. They didn’t bring their garage pop to…
