Comments on: Failing at Fondue

By: Lorien

Lorien — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:13:58 +0000

Oh. and. Something you two will like: http://www.cedesol.org/
solar ovens. We’re getting one here, soon, and we’re all looking forward to it. This organization is very active in Bolivia, and I have much respect for the products and methology.

By: Lorien

Lorien — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:11:47 +0000

Mona and Henry! Really, please, get on Facebook already. I’m so horrible about checking LiveJournal blogs now.

Meanwhile, even I know that electricity from the wall provides more efficient and less expensive energy than beer. When I become a *real* grownup with my own kitchen, I intend to have the Kitchenaid mixer and a food processor. But I don’t have kids to feed. So.

Victory gardens, ahoy. At least you needn’t worry about building permits for them – yet. I’d quite like to have an apple orchard and cidery, but that would require people manage the thing.

Still. Apple cider on demand. Dream.

By: Henry

Henry — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:14:34 +0000

According to the Mr. Coffee website, they released the first automatic drip coffee maker in 1972.

We have many food processors. We call them knives, potato mashers, box graters, wire whisks. . . . With just a little bit of regular practice, we can work quite quickly with them, and they’re very energy efficient. They run on beer. I don’t think twice about not having some fancy electric food processor, and I can’t imagine finding somewhere to store a useless electric scale. Mona uses a wooden spoon to mix cookie dough because she’s too much of a snob to use the electric beaters.

Heck, our oven is a 110th anniversary model from a company started in 1874, making it . . . (wait, higher math happening) . . . twenty-five years old. I wonder if she (article chick, not Mona) could work with that?!?

I kind of envy you your cooking situation. I want to build a wood-burning brick oven and grill in the back yard, but I’m not sure if local building/zoning regulations would allow it, and I would like to grow and can my own vegetables (sure, work at the end of the season, but just open a jar later), so your technological setbacks sound, to me, like challenges!

I agree with you that Frazzled Idiot-Cook must be just lousy at it. (I’ll follow the link in a few minutes.)

I also agree with Mona that you should post more often.

By: Mona

Mona — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:56:07 +0000

She lives! You, that is. You really should post more often, dearie. We don't have a microwave, food processor or bread maker. We don't have a huge KitchenAid stand mixer, even. And didn't they have automatic drip coffee makers in the seventies, too? I know my parents still used their stovetop percolator (we use one on the weekends), but I thought you could get them then. Mona’s last blog post..It's about time.