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Purple Curry, Skillet Pizza, and Eggplant-Beef Stir Fry
A veritable festival of summer cooking, largely inspired by the CSA we’re part of. Purple Curry First, we got purple carrots in one of our CSA boxes: Then we were like, what do we do with purple carrots? The answer is, apparently, eat them. So we did.
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Simple Recipes for Tastiness
Joining the CSA last month has transformed our kitchen into a palace of happiness. …Well, maybe not such a huge transformation. But we’re definitely cooking differently. For instance, Greg now keeps stock bags: one contains the unwanted bits from vegetables (stems and ends and skins), another contains the bones (etc.) from chickens that we eat. These live in the freezer until we have need of a stock, and then are boiled into bliss to produce either veggie or chicken stock. Having very little waste as a result of cooking greens or chard is pretty damn awesome. Having tasty stock (spiced as we desire) whenever we want: priceless. It beats trying…
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First CSA Box: Yummy!
Our first CSA box from Know Your Farms:
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Weekly Linkage
There’s a bit of everything in week’s internet cruising: The higher-education bubble (continued): Students are drowning in debt – How's this for ridiculous: student-loan debt now surpasses credit-card debt. Literary Agent – Traditional Versus Self-Publishing – Ted … – Amanda Hocking and Barry Eisler on their strategies of traditional- and self-publishing. 10 Tips on Growing Your Garden Without Growing Your Expenses – Given my gardening bug this year, this is a handy read. On Digital Identity, Technology Dependents, and Death – Much like the comprehensive backup solution I linked to so long ago, this is a great guide for getting started with digital identity management. 1Password is also great on…
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Weekly Linkage: Healthcare, Midnight Deployments, and Markov Chaining
I’ve been all over The Incidental Economist lately, and it’s really hard not to link to every one of their posts that I can make heads or tails of. They’re really prolific by my standards, though, which means it’s a struggle to keep their posts from falling off the 30-day cut-off in Google Reader. Simply put: Marginal cost/benefit – "You’ll consume as much health care as you think worth it for the transaction price (your copayment if you’re insured). The lower the price, the more you’ll consume. You’ll keep using health services until the marginal benefit falls below the price you pay." I'm not sure I agree that people will…