Adventures in Experimental Cooking: Vobla Soup

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Vobla, originally uploaded by zak_greant.
Early last week, I ventured out to our local German and Eastern European deli. While picking up the regular assortment of cured meats, [...]

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20000 km, $7000, 7 days and 4 tons of CO2

… or, "Making Event Attendance Count"
Late last year, I gave a keynote at paired Finnish conferences MindTrek and OpenMind. While the events were well worth attending, afterwards I spent a few bleak hours thinking about the actual costs of my attendance. If I had left Canada just for these events (which, thankfully, I [...]

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Breakfast 2007-09-24

Breakfast 2007-09-24, originally uploaded by zak_greant.

Breakfast today consisted of 100 grams of cooked baby bok choy, 100 grams of vinegared organic onion, an organic egg, 50 grams cooked lentils, 90 grams of organic apple and about a tablespoon of butter for cooking the bok choy.
The onions were a bit hard to face, as was the [...]

Hippie-Deluxe BarCamp Vancouver Food

After a night that was way too long (and with a good chunk of help from Dan, Elizabeth and Mandy - thanks folks!), we now have hippie-deluxe (and I don't mean that in a pejorative way) vegan allergy-sensitive food for BarCamp Vancouver.
Hippie-deluxe, in this case, means organic ingredients from local farmers (within a day's drive).
Allergy [...]

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VASHIKOL: A Bad Acronym for (Hopefully) Good Food

At last years BarCamp Vancouver I prepared food inspired by the Sikh practice of Langar. You can read more about it in post Borrowing Great Idea from the Sikhs.
This year, I'll do the same, but I'm going to use local food that is organic. This might be a bit tougher - especially as I am [...]

The Hunter/Gatherer Meal

Looking to save time and eat a healthier diet?

Recipes don't get much simpler than this:

A healthy pinch of nuts and/or seeds
- perhaps avoid salted, roasted, … :)

A handful of greens
- look for nice pre-washed organic mixes
- convenient and healthy
- buy in bulk to save money

A small handful of cut-up fruit. Some [...]