Dokus Malorkus

So, in honor of the rantings of the ashcan, this blog will now feature my adventures in health and sustainability. I'm going to post my food adventures, exercise (hopefully someday I'll do more interesting things that walks -- starting my yoga DVD again one of these days for sure, and that'll give me more to obsess about), and trying to be as green as possible on a tight budget.

Right now I'm making curry potato/leek/spinach soup, and it smells great! I've decided to become one of those people who post photos of their food. Because it really is more interesting when you can see it (though not as good as when you eat it!). I could post recipes, but I certainly didn't make most of them up, so I'm not sure if that's OK...

Some things to think about:
Composting in a rental property where there are dogs in the yard
Growing vegetables in said yard...

OK, soup is done, now I have to take and remember how to add a photo. Gotta say, the soup is AWESOME -- depending on your feelings, in spite of or because of its being very green (I forgot about all that spinach -- I was picturing it being kind of orange -- curry/potato).

I usually hate reading recipe reviews where everyone says "this is GREAT, I just substituted most major ingredients and did this and that and totally changed the recipe!" However, since there is a CRAP TON of this soup (I doubled what didn't look like a huge batch), I am going to modify. My ONLY complaint is that it's kind of thin, so I'm going to make some with chunks of potatoes and... Dammit, this is WHY I write stuff down, I forgot what else I was going to do with it! Oh, next time I would probably leave out the milk -- it tastes great, and of course in the end there's more soup, but I like to avoid dairy as much as possible (besides my copious yogurt -- which I plan to try again, yes!)

So I don't know how to use my digital camera -- it's out of focus, oh well. Also, because the soup is thin, this is after stirring my dollop of sour cream in. It was the least crappy photo :)

OK, HERE IS PART OF MY SOUP. Haven't used Photobucket in a while, and APPARENTLY I'm stupid, because when I resize it, hit APPLY, then hit SAVE, it keeps reverting back to its original size. I mean, duh, of course it would. So here's the edge of my giant soup.