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21.1.11

Beautiful health


Pillivuyt Porcelain 10-by-6-1/4-Inch Oval-Eared Dish

Good cookware that preserves vitamins and nutrients also uses very little energy cooking.
Heat it up, cover and it will pretty much cook with no additional heat, maybe on very low. This is Staub cookware from France, it's cast iron with enamel.

The mushroom recipe is from Gourmet cookbook. I taught myself to cook gourm-ishusing this cookbook many years ago. The Gourmet Cookbook Volume II (Revised)
I'll either broil the mushrooms it or add it to the chicken
which is now simmering under chopped onions.
The potatoes are simple, onion, small amount of butter, one with soy milk, the other with 2%.

Beets slow cooked and some with greens.

Waiting for my new slow Juicer, omega 350 HD.





I'm supposed to go dairy and gluten free. It's a whole other world.
I'm not even sure what that means yet except walking the grocery isles with a glazed look on my face and my stomach rumbling.


My approach to everything is beauty tho. It's how I clean house, cook, shop,
Travel. Etc.

I'm considering a new blog to chart my course and express my motivation via beauty to accomplish this.

I'll accomplish this by refraining from eating out and buying Pillivuyt porcelain dishes instead, to make dining on this diet , well, Bon appetite.
And yes, cooking with Staub enameled cast iron is a plus. It cooks with very little heat and is waterless cooking. very nice stove or even to table then to frig. It's very nice looking too.
Staub Mini Oval .25 Quart Cocotte, Grenadine

Staub 6 Quart Coq Au Vin Cocotte, Grenadine

Staub Cast-Iron 2-1/4-Quart Round "La Cocotte" French Oven, Grenadine

Pillivuyt 212226 Sancerre Plate - 10 Inch

11.1.11

Making soy yogurt now.

I just bought this new Yolife yogurt maker for yogurt. I used to make it in my slow cooker. But I've been taken off dairy, so I'm doing soy, and coconut milk etc yogurt. It's ok I miss my indo European yogurt though.

This yogurt maker is marvelous. It has two lids, one tall for large quart size jars, and a small one for short jars. It's just nice to not have to mess with the crock pot. Besides I cook soups in it this time of year.
Tribest Yolife Yogurt Maker - YL-210Tribest Yolife Yogurt Maker - YL-210

9.1.11

Skagit Valley. Snow and Swans. Mt Baker

You can sort of see the two plumes steaming from Baker in the second photo.
This is iPhone camera. Darn I didn't bring my other camera.




Swans in the Skagit Valley

Mt Baker is steaming

Exciting to see Baker with two plumes steaming today. And what a nice
day to be out in the Skagit Valley. Snow fields, fog, swans, beauty.
I'd never seen Baker steam before. I wonder if she's up to something?

8.1.11

2.1.11

Yikes!! Guess where I am?

A Bald Eagle at Lake Crescent yesterday

31.12.10

My New Years Trip Mt Rainier, Mt Baker, Kingston Ferry

Hurricane Ridge

Mt. Rainier

Hurricane Ridge

30.12.10

29.12.10

We have sun!!

21.12.10

Merry Cookiemas.

Backyard Bugs Nordic Ware Cake Pan
And I love these caklet pans molds from Nordicware.