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for those reading from the (SF) bay area, santa cruz's annual chowder cook-off is this weekend!!

http://www.beachboardwalk.com/clamchowder/

boneless chicken thighs + mole sauce + tablespoon or two of peanut butter. cooked 'til self-shredding. served in lettuce cups with homemade pico de gallo and extra cilantro, plus a crushed tortilla chip or two and an extra squirt of lime. yum!

i don't know...we create vignettes all over the rest of the house out of our functional items, why not inside the fridge? we certainly do it in our fruit bowls and on our pantry shelves. (are the people who empty their bulk grains and pastas and legumes into glass jars that they line up on a shelf and then admire not copping to "thoughtful arrangement"?)

we also do it on our bookcases, and in our bathrooms, with our shoes by the door, etc. what makes the fridge different? the only thing that would bug me about is if you ruined food in the process, i.e. how long can the above chicken leg go unwrapped?

i do like the idea out of storing my refrigerated leftovers in beautiful glass, and i don't mind the idea of being as careful with my food's display when i'm not eating it as when i am. we certainly don't mind the idea when we're inside an expensive grocery store - isn't that wholefoods' whole shtick?

with summer goodness starting to explode in the csa box, i'm using the processor a lot (omg pesto). earlier in the year it was the kitchen aid - lots of baking. for non-plug-in tools, it's the hand reamer - lemons and limes for everything from tea to humus to salad dressing to guac!

michelle: lard is first choice. the drippings out of a cast iron pan that has had any salty meat cooked in it (cut with canola oil if you need more), sausage drippings, etc. will also do. barring that, you can find some 'healthy' shortening at some grocery stores, basically a cleaned up version of crisco that doesn't have hydrogenated oils in it.

and why can't i answer the survey? (#3!)

well, back when i had a w/d in my place, my most hated chore was vacuuming. but now that i have to go to a laundromat, it is definitely the 2 hours of hauling the dirty clothes to the car in their heavy tub, trying to snag washers and dryers somewhat close to each other, hauling all the heavy detergent in a backpack, not being able to hang clothes up straight from the dryer, sitting with a bag of damp clothes that i will line dry when i get home, etc etc etc.

but if restricted to chores inside the house, definitely still vacuuming. between the cat hair and the spiders, the floors and corners never really feel clean.

yes, it's garbanzo, which i bought "green" for the first time a month ago at the hispanic market. too bad no one told me i wasn't supposed to shell them before i cooked them. only after i'd suffered through the whole pile did someone make it clear to me i should have done them like edamame: in the shell, steamed, and with salt.

all my attempts at bamboo boards ended with them coming apart at the lamination joints or getting badly stained there. i like my plain wood one for everything but raw meat. i can't convince myself to use anything but plastic for the raw meat.

my favorite as well, though i tend to take that light blue and push it towards peacock blue. :)

i'm starting to suspect the best bet is to make peace with getting the metal mesh foldable ones and accessorize with awesome bags. the hook-and-go doesn't protect your stuff from getting squished by all the people who bump into you at a crowded market. if i had perfectly ripe peaches dangling from it and they got mashed by someone's shins as that someone tried to reach over me for a handful of artichokes, i'd be pretty peeved.