tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204462492024-03-06T23:37:16.060-06:00The Curious KitchenThe delightful, delicious and amazing world of healthy,(mostly) vegetarian food.Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-18013039012897638642014-02-23T12:35:00.002-06:002014-02-23T12:35:26.365-06:00I have begun to think that doing a blog is just more work than I imagined. But...I intend to do some traveling pretty soon and I want to take some photos, so I think this is a good place to do that. I hope I will not be as lazy as I have been for the last year or so...anyway I'm on it.
I just want to mention that I attended a screening of a movie coming out called, The Grand Budapest Hotel...a Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-7165753963650837832012-02-19T18:22:00.003-06:002012-02-19T18:28:30.925-06:00I AM SUCH A LAZY GAL...Look how long it's been since I've entered anything on my little blog. Good Golly!Well, I just happened to have been so inspired by a couple of new restaurants that I have to blog away about them.In the Central West End here in St. Louie, there is a lovely little cafe called Green Bean. There's chopped salads there that'll make you wonder why you don't eat salad every day. There's also wine Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-472666799135296352010-10-23T06:12:00.005-05:002010-10-23T06:47:24.012-05:00VILLAGES-WHAT MAKES ONE?I've been spending time in the Boston area for a couple of months and I visited a couple of "villages." I visited the lovely Rockport, MA and the larger but still wonderful Newburyport, MA. Both are on the seaside and both have been around for quite some time.Visiting them made me question what a village is (or should be, maybe)...I noticed that both of these little towns had numerous shops Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-5711611643954716722010-08-13T17:46:00.002-05:002010-08-13T17:51:05.143-05:00I'M SO NEGLIGENTI've been to Boston, Rhode Island and New York City. I love the experiences but forget to write about them. I've loved Farmhaus restaurant in my neighborhood...been there several times. I have a present for them. I just have to remember to bring it.I will have to post some photos from my trip out East. Golly was it fun. In Rhode Island while visiting an old friend, I had a "martini" made Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-19548706463584890492010-05-25T09:03:00.002-05:002010-05-25T09:08:10.697-05:00I COULD LIVE IN EDWARDSVILLE...I THINKAfter eating at a new restaurant in Edwardsville, Il. I'm pretty sure I could actually live there...well, maybe. The restaurant is Peel and it is quite an upscale place in design but moderate in price. I had an Italian sandwich that consisted of mozzarella cheese (fresh) artichokes, basil pesto and other delectables. I nearly swooned at the fresh, delicate deliciousness of it. mmmmm...My Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-15467582933349196732010-04-20T20:05:00.002-05:002010-04-20T20:08:50.631-05:00WHAT A DINNER I MADE LAST NIGHT.I forgot to mention my lovely dinner last night:*portabella with garlic/wine sauce*asparagus tips.*salad from my garden with a light balsamic/olive oil dressing.*steamed artichoke with a orange butter dip.*crunchy artisan breadSo very, very tasty. I wish I'd taken photos but alas, I did not.Use your imagination...think of a very good meal...and then you'll have it.Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-62497617655866338352010-04-20T20:01:00.002-05:002010-04-20T20:04:45.448-05:00YOUNG PEOPLE CAN BE SO REFRESHING!Hung around Atomic Cowboy this evening...what a cool place, by the way, and had a pleasant conversation with an intelligent young man.So nice to know that young folks have great ways of looking at life.Another thought: My working with the Sapp has been both rewarding and stressful. Most of the people we meet are our teachers whether we want them to be or not.Ah....everything is but a lesson.Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-92063295850174307772010-03-22T09:48:00.000-05:002010-03-22T09:49:17.931-05:00Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-35133865536050429452010-03-22T09:25:00.006-05:002010-03-22T09:46:20.056-05:00NEW RESTAURANTS I'VE ENJOYEDThere are two restaurants in town that I hadn't tried and one very new one. I think the two had been in existence for a while...but I just hadn't been to visit them.The first is Sweet Arts. It's a bakery/cafe. What a nice little cafe...all vegetarian...on 39th street in the Grand area. I had a tasty veggie burger, so meat-like that half way through consuming it I had to go check with the Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-18460720860238495592010-03-08T09:24:00.002-06:002010-03-08T09:34:08.427-06:00FARMHAUS RESTAURANT-READY?I am very excited about a new restaurant opening in my neighborhood. (And trying to forget about plumbing problems I'm having here at the old homeplace grrrrr...)This new restaurant is not vegetarian, of course, but it does seem like the chef is open to taking care of us when we visit. I hope so. I want to go with a friend of mine and know they are startin' up lunch this week but don't know Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-1593351603585400742010-01-08T18:34:00.004-06:002010-01-08T18:55:47.278-06:00LOOKS LIKE IM NOT GOING OUT FOR DINNER THIS WEEKEND!Before I begin this post, let me thank those who keep my spelling on the straight and narrow. Usually I'm a decent speller but thanks for that correction.Now for this evening...I have a friend who had offered to take me out to dinner this Saturday due to something I'd done for him and drat! he has backed out due to bad weather....although I totally understand, I'm disappointed! I haven't seen Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-88217348453909962212010-01-06T19:18:00.003-06:002010-01-06T19:31:06.054-06:00WHAT A LOVELY SUPPER!Here we are in ole St. Lou waiting for a powerful snowstorm to overtake us...according to the weather folks.So, I decided to make a supper of all the stuff I had on hand. I had some cooked brown rice, onion, carrot, ginger, shiitake mushrooms and some other already-forgotten stuff. Oh, my god!!! I'm either a really great cook or I'm way too easily satisfied. My meal was delicious and as good, Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-88906535775494399922010-01-05T20:11:00.004-06:002010-01-08T18:54:21.198-06:00LOVE THEM ALL...Commentators, that is. Just finished eating some of the best peaches I've ever had. I froze some really ripe peaches last summer and got around to eating some of them tonight...they were heavenly.What a treat to have ripe peaches in the deepest cold of January.Yum!Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-67914802785081911002010-01-05T18:51:00.002-06:002010-01-05T18:53:49.262-06:00SALTY STROLLING AT THE MALLWalking the mall turns out to be getting kinda salty, according to one reader....hmmmm....wonder what he means. Are folks now walking naked or or they hittin' up on the salt shaker while walking? I guess I'll just have to accept that walkin' the mall is gettin' kinda salty....well, OK!Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-72507269236440973882010-01-04T22:12:00.003-06:002010-01-04T22:41:26.302-06:00THE MALLWell, I went to a mall today. I wanted to walk and it was too cold for me to do it outside so I became a mall-walker...goes with the age, I guess. I just wish I could go to a mall, have a walk, appreciate that it's there for me and that's it. And no, it doesn't matter which mall it was. Just choose a mall, any mall pretty much. The mall...a symbol of what went wrong with the "marketplace." Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-32128939240646467622009-12-21T19:19:00.002-06:002009-12-21T19:34:42.525-06:00OK...I AM IN LOVE...I've found Vom Fass, an amazing German company who issues franchises here in the US of A.There's only 2, count 'em, 2 locations in the US. One in Madison, WI and one in little ole Maplewood. Hooray!!Vom Fass is a sweet little shop that offers many oils, vinegars, spirits and wines for your amusement and enjoyment...as well as the utter enjoyment of your taste buds. I purchased even more (I was Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-21915139400309116712009-10-04T19:40:00.002-05:002009-10-04T19:48:12.373-05:00WHAT A FALL!I'm thinking that this summer and indeed this fall too, is just about the nicest weather that I've experienced. Summer has been cool and delightful and fall has, thus far, been lovely. Is this global warming? Is it just a weird anomaly in the weather for some "natural" reason? I don't know. I know I like it. The world is changing and whatever is causing it, it is benefiting some and hurtingLoishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-37464694628741425172009-09-03T11:21:00.003-05:002009-09-03T11:40:08.385-05:00NOT FEELING WELL - A SPECIAL TIME TO THINKHaving spent the last couple of days not feeling up to par...I don't know, cold, flu, something like that although mild-ish, I've had just enough energy to do some thinking. When all you can do is lie on the sofa or lounge chair, thinking and reading are about it.Thinking about what to do this winter is what I'm doing. I love my part time job at University Gardens in St. Lou, of course. But I Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-65257037181468173222009-07-12T16:32:00.002-05:002009-07-12T16:44:55.918-05:00PEACHESPeaches, peaches, peaches. Some fine edible wonder to love right now. When the peaches begin coming in I cannot seem to get enough.I love them white, yellow, blush, any charming color that I find them in. Yum and more yum. Peaches/tomatoes = summer. Yet, in this height of summer-y goodness and yummy edible-ness I find myself thinking fall and winter and wondering, once again, where I might goLoishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-59960237956658202562009-06-01T20:03:00.003-05:002009-06-01T20:09:37.380-05:00HEARING FROM HALLAI've been friends with Halla for many years now. I just got an email from her that she is traveling solo in Spain. What fun!I'm so glad to know she's traveling alone. It is such a joy to travel alone. Oh, it's great with someone, too. I will never forget a trip to France with an old beau. It was maddening and joyous. But alone is a whole different thing. Something everyone should try at Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-72646653629163997252009-05-27T15:20:00.002-05:002009-05-27T15:23:20.515-05:00SPRING TIME IN ST. LOUIS...OR IS IT SUMMER?Today is one of those beautiful days in St. Louis. We've had a long and cool-ish and rainy spring...but invariably when it turns hotter than 80 people will begin raving about how we "didn't have any spring." People seem to forget. This year, for the record, we did have a spring. It was cool. It was rainy. It was nice. Now it's ebbing 'cause summer's coming. And it's all OK.Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-27405745858492215682009-05-18T18:50:00.003-05:002010-03-22T09:54:08.449-05:00IM SO NEGLIGENTI just can't seem to get to this blog to post anything. Here is what I am eventually going to write about. I had a great breakfast using a large handful of my fragrant rose petals. So heavenly that I took a photo of it...will get to it later, I think.And I ate at McCormick and Schmicks...seafood, fancy, good.I wrote a new poem that I want to post...later.That's about all I can come up with Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-86112852046265281002009-04-06T09:38:00.002-05:002009-04-06T09:47:42.232-05:00BIRTHDAY WEEKENDJust want to say that I have had such a nice birthday weekend. Probably one of the best in many, many years. Friday was great. After work I stopped by an old favorite restaurant, Trattoria Marcella, and Stevie, the chef, bought me dinner. I had a great conversation with a couple of young fellas (a couple, I think)...always so interesting to get perspective from younger folks.Saturday was a Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-74140873282678477202009-03-19T20:07:00.002-05:002009-03-19T20:19:04.886-05:00SOMETHING CREEPY FEELIN' TONIGHTI don't know why but something feels "off" in the world tonight...earthquake, asteroid, comet, tsunami??? I don't know. It really does feel strange, though. I'm feeling some anxiety or something. Maybe the stars are out of sync tonight or something...but....I just have not felt this weird for a long time. A yuckky feeling, for sure. Keep your fingers crossed that the poles are not switching Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20446249.post-7291382985884043012009-02-26T17:52:00.003-06:002009-02-26T18:59:59.813-06:00DO YOU REMEMBER...the way that the world smells right when the rain starts on a dry day?I do...it's one of the most wonderful scents in the world. Fragrant, dusty and memory-inducing. Lots of changing things in my life. I need a bit (wee bit) more money so I've applied for a couple of jobs. I think I might have gotten one that is going to be really rewarding. It is being a companion to a lovely, middle-aged Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07176426894037605474noreply@blogger.com0