This weekend was rife with food happenings at our place. Chiefly, D bought all the accoutrements he needed to begin producing his homemade cheese experiments. As of lunchtime today, the curds were in the press and being transformed into “farmhouse cheddar.” I will keep you posted on the progress of that project. (Yes he was wearing his apron and clogs.) All in all it looked like a rather involved process, the sort of process which I am dismal at. Lucky for us all, it is D at the helm of this project, what with all the probe thermometers and incy bottles of stuff and stainless steel bowls and pots of whey and such. Apparently he also produced a cup or so of fresh ricotta out of the whey.

Meanwhile, we made our way to the asian grocer on Saturday morning where I stocked up two huge bunches of gai lan, assorted mushrooms, boxes of this ginger candy I’ve become addicted to, tofu, some random curry pastes, ponzu sauce and of course…. boba tea from lollicup. (For the record I had a green tea slush, and it was soooooooo good.)

The dogs also had quite an eventful food weekend. Firstly, we visited Bones2Go to stock up a couple days worth of RMB (that’s raw meaty bones) and “recreational” bones for them. D also picked up half a dozen lamb shanks for himself (and is braising/roasting them for dinner tonight). We are switching the beasts over to a BARF type diet, and they had their first all vegetable meal last night. They were not impressed by my gourmet vegetable pap (celery, sweet potato, carrots, parsley, and spinach) (GVP). They are not consoled with promises of chicken necks tonight and beef heart tomorrow. Mmm Mmm good! Though, I should point out that technically, not all dogs ate last night. That is because Sam, the little shit, jumped the baby gate into the office and broke into the nutritional yeast and bee pollen stash we have in there (raw ingredients for the dog supplement we are developing for the shop).

It was yellow yeasty dust carnage when we returned from the shops. He was covered in it, and the office was covered in it. Clearly he enjoyed it while he was eating it, but poor little guy…he really paid the price. He was so ridiculously bloated his ribs were almost pointing outward. Poor little man. Needless to say, he was not interested (nor was he offered) GVP. I was up most of the night with him consoling him, cleaning up spew and hoping (as he was) that he wouldn’t be vomiting forever. So, yeah, that was fun times. To recap: some nutritional yeast is ok, a lot of nutritional yeast makes for a very bloated and very sick dog (sick as a dog even!)

Now then onto a more pleasant announcement, I’ll be in New Orleans tomorrow and Wednesday. I have some meetings to attend, but the best news is, I also have plenty of down time to indulge myself in the French Quarter. So much great food, alas, so few meals to fit it into! I plan on picking up a couple muffalettas from central grocer to bring home, but as for dinner and lunch… I’m free to do as I want. My favourite indulgence of all: eating alone as I see fit! Hurrah.