Oh such a happy food weekend. :) The Small Bar had a steak salad special that was just perfect, Niles made an incredible dinner Saturday night with pasta and fresh farmers’ market veggies – including kohlrabi! Such an odd looking vegetable but it cooks up very tasty. And tonight we had lamb Cumberland sausages from our CSA. The flavor was amazing!
We still have a fridge full of farmers’ market veggies, too. I have a ton of rhubarb. Not sure what to do with it, except we have a bunch of berries too. Do you think rhubarb would go well with rasberries in a cobbler or something?
Hey, did you know Sauceome got mentioned on Comics Worth Reading? Now you do! :)
I love that-not only has the snake monster not appeared in your comic for a while-but numbers haven’t appeared either. In my journey trying to deal with weight/food issues, I’ve always been more obsessed with the numbers on the scale than my mental or emotional accomplishments with food. Reading your comic makes me hungry-but hungry in a way that feels healthy. I’m inspired by your ability to be a serious foodie (I am too!) and still make healthy physical accomplishments without compromising this. Its what I want to be when I grow up. :) Anyway-thank you!
I found your comic via Storming the Tower and just wanted to say thank you. I find it inspiring. It makes me hungry too, but I think I can wait until dinner for the lamb we’re having tonight.
Maggie: I’ve been kind of in awe of that myself lately. I think that’s going to be today’s comic, actually. For anyone who’s interested in the numbers part, I am still paying attention, and I’ve been hovering around the 195-197 range for the last couple of weeks. Do you remember what happened the last time I spend a few weeks at the same weight? I drew like 10 cartoons of a plateau and freaked out a little.
This time… I mean, I’m still weighing myself pretty regularly, but it’s almost more out of curiosity than anything else. And I’m a lot less fixated on the actual numbers. There’s been a pretty major shift in my thinking about all this recently, for sure.
WOOHOO! Go Sarah! Re: Rhubarb… I wonder if anyone has ever successfully made a rhubarb cocktail of any kind…
Hi! I found this via Storming the Tower too. I really like the things you’re doing in this comic :) (The clothes I wear are anywhere from size 18 to size 26, I ride a bike and am trying to learn to love and live with my body as it is right now.)
Rhubarb makes a great crisp with granny smith apples. YUM.
Comics Worth Reading is why I’m here, and I’m so glad I found this site. It does make me jealous, though. You have access to some pretty fantastic food. Being in a smaller community in TN we don’t have as much variety because people here are boring when it comes to food. There are bright spots, but there are also a lot of buffets.
My mom makes a rhubarb casserole/custardy bake. Damn tasty – good for a dessert or a sweet side.
If I remember correctly, here’s the recipe or a close approximate:
Cut the rhubarb into cubes (kitchen shears work great for this). Place in a 9″ casserole dish. (You need just enough rhubarb to almost fill the dish, leaving an inch or so of room at the top.
Cube 3 to 4 slices of white bread (any kind will do – my mom used wonder bread, I’ve tried all sorts of artisan whites). Sprinkle bread cubes on top of rhubarb.
Whisk together one egg and a cup of sugar. (More or less to your taste – but the consistency should be fluid and creamy, yet gritty from the sugar). Pour mixture over the top of the bread/rhubarb mix. Fold together. Bake at 350 until golden.
I think you could add some special ingredients to the egg mixture (like vanilla or an amaretto liquor). Might be fun.
I missed this weekend post! Shame on me.
Rhubarb + raspberries = divine. You don’t even need to bake them — just simmer in a pan until they fall apart, then serve over ice cream, frozen yogurt, pound cake, whatever. Rough recipe here (sorry for the long link!):
http://smartcabbage.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/olive-oil-cakehttpsmartcabbage-wordpress-comwp-adminpost-phppost368actioneditmessage10/