So this holiday season I’ve been experimenting with low-carb, wheat-free, gluten-free baking. Oh boy, what a world of gustatory wonder you glimpse when you hear THAT lineup of restrictions, right? So far my preliminary experiments have been turning out … OK. I started with muffins, using a mixture of flax meal & soy flour [...]
  | Just a reminder to mark your calendars: One week from today, on September 16th, at 7 p.m., I will be reading from THE NATIVE STAR at Powell’s Books in Beaverton. There will also be a 19th century trivia contest with prizes! I won’t say what the prizes are precisely, but I can promise you [...] Three months ago, I went to my doctor and had my fasting bloodwork done. The results that came back were horrible, simply horrible. So I embarked on a program of diet and exercise (aka “Banting”) intended to bring my numbers into closer alignment with, you know, ongoing existence as a human being and all [...] So one of the things that’s been taking up a lot of my mind space lately is Banting. Which is a term taken from the name of a gentleman named William Banting, who wrote a screed in 1869 called “A Letter on Corpulence” that proved so popular that throughout much of the 19th century, [...] So yesterday daughter and I hiked down the hill to the opening of the Wednesday Farmer’s Market in downtown Oregon City. The Saturday Farmer’s Market has been going for quite some time now, but I’ve only made it out there once or twice because it’s not really on my route and driving to a [...] | |
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