In which weekend plans are changed…

20 Tuesday Sep 2011

Posted by in Dogs, Medical

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First, Kismet is doing very well, and is expected to make a full recovery.

However, our already intricate plans for attending Foolscap, which revolved around making sure that we were not overly taxing a puppy’s ability to remain crated and avoid an accident, were altered significantly.

Friday, Kismet suffered a series (at least two, probably three) of strokes, and for large chunks of the day, it wasn’t clear if anyone was home. To be honest, if we had not already purchased our memberships (and if I had not already agreed to be on a couple of panels), we almost certainly would not have gone at all. As it was, she wasn’t left alone at all until Saturday night.

By Saturday, the prognosis looked good. She was alert, and herself, but she still had severely impaired right side function. As of this morning, while I still wouldn’t trust her going down the stairs, she insisted on trotting up them.

Basic Quickbread

06 Tuesday Sep 2011

Posted by in Baking, paleo-cuisine, Recipe

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I wish I could find the author of the recipe I based this on, but it’s not showing up on what I thought were the searches I had used, so I’ll have to add attribution as soon as I can find it.

The modified version is provided here.

  • 1 large egg (Duck egg preferred)
  • 45 grams almond flour
  • 1 tsp Baking Powder (Aluminum Free)
  • 1.5 tsp Olive Oil or Ghee
  • Salt to taste, but don’t short it (even if making a sweeter bread)
  • Pepper or other Herbs or Flavorings as desired

Combine all the ingredients, you will end up with a thick batter. Bake at 335F for 15-30 minutes (depending on how thick you’ve spread the resulting batter into pans, muffins, or however else you plan on cooking it. I normally spread it on a Silpat (or, for “rolls”, spoon it into a round egg ring on the Silpat, and then remove the ring).

In general, you’ll use more than one instance of this, but as a topping for a cobbler, you might do just one instance, add vanilla extract and some Stevia leaf, and put it on top of fresh fruit tossed with a bit of Arrowroot or other paleo-friendly thickener.

 

Eat Your Books

05 Monday Sep 2011

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Cookbooks.

I like cookbooks. I have rather a lot of them.

Well, by reasonable standards, I have a lot. But there are people who have far more than I do, so I don’t have a problem. Well, yet.

But finding things in them can be a bit tricky. Which book had what recipe, where did I find the right version of that sauce, and so on and so forth.

Enter Eat Your Books, an indexing site. They don’t store the contents of your cookbooks, but what you can do is store which cookbooks you have. Then you can search the indexed books for all the versions of a given recipe, or what recipes you have for a certain ingredient, well, you get the idea.