Month: April 2004

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Musical Wish List

iTunes application icon The iTunes Music Store does not yet have a “wish list” feature, but it does have URL access to individual songs, albums, and artists now, so I am using that capability to make my own personal list of potential iTunes Music Store purchases.

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New Style

In honor of the start of Spring, I have retired my dingy, gray style sheet in favor of this bright shiny new one. Actually, I stole the color scheme from the label off of an old bottle of gun blue. Let me know what you think about it.

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Food Preservation Links

I have been cleaning out my bookmarks, and I came across a few sites related to food preservation.

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Food Coupons and Deals

If you are a foodie, and buy online, I strongly recommend that you check out the Food Coupons and Deals site before your next purchase. It tracks the special discounts and the coupon codes for getting them from many popular food and cooking stores online.

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Carbo-terrorism

My father sent me this link the other day. It is hilarious and I recommend it to anybody who is on a low-carb diet — or not on one. After all, if you can’t laugh at yourself…

Today, of course, nobody eats bread. People are terrified of all carbohydrates, as evidenced by the recent mass robbery at a midtown Manhattan restaurant, where 87 patrons turned their wallets over to a man armed only with a strand of No. 8 spaghetti. (“Do what he says! He has pasta!”) The city of Beverly Hills has been evacuated twice this month because of reports — false, thank heavens — that terrorists had put a bagel in the water supply. [Barry]

Barry, Dave. “Confessions of a closet carb fiend.” The Miami Herald. 28 March 2004. <www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/dave_barry/8292220.htm> (4 April 2004).

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Walk for Health

I am a strong believer in walking for health — balancing caloric intake with its expenditure in activity. Now it seems that the American College of Sports Medicine has set out to demonstrate this axiom by hooking up a group of Amish to pedometers and monitoring their diet and exercise.

Amish men, who mostly work as farmers, logged an average of 18,425 steps a day. Women, who handle gardening, cooking and child care, recorded 14,196 steps. One man covered more than 51,000 steps in a single day by walking his field behind a team of plow horses. All participants exceeded the 10,000 daily steps often recommended for cardiovascular health. “Vigorous” activity in which Amish men took part included heavy lifting, shoveling, chopping wood and tossing straw bales.

High-calorie diets of meat, potatoes, breads, pies and cakes didn’t interfere with maintenance of a healthy body weight, the study found. Only 4 percent of Amish adults were obese, compared with 31 percent of Americans overall; 26 percent of the Amish were overweight, compared with 64.5 percent of Americans.

Scarton, Dana. “Doing The Plow.” The Washington Post. 13 January 2004. <www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A11578-2004Jan12> (4 April 2004).

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Buffalo

Photograph of Buffalo Herd.

The guy who runs the local feed mill has a farm down the valley where he has some buffalo.

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Big Red

Photograph of KitchenAid Professional Mixer.

I have been saving this for a while — mostly because I have been too busy — but, Gretchen has gone and spent the pennies she has been saving on an KitchenAid Professional 6-Quart Stand Mixer. We call it “Big Red.”

This morning, Gretchen used it to make Apple Muffins.

Photograph of Apple Muffin.

Apple Muffins

  • 2 cups All Purpose Flour
  • ¼ cup Sugar
  • 1 tablespoon Baking Powder
  • ½ teaspoon Salt
  • ¾ cup Apple juice
  • ⅓ cup Oil
  • 1 Egg
  • 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
  • 1 cup Apple, peeled and finely chopped
  1. Heat oven to 400°F
  2. Line a muffin tin with 12 paper baking cups.
  3. In a medium bowl, combine all dry ingredients — including apples.
  4. Break egg into mixer bowl and beat. Add apple juice and oil and mix. Add dry ingredients. Mix until dry ingredients are just moistened — batter will be lumpy.
  5. Fill baking cups ⅔ full.
  6. Bake for 20 minutes.
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