Camino de Santiago

In May of 2007, my husband and I tested the Camino de Santiago, the medieval pilgrimage trail across northern Spain, from Roncesvalles to Burgos.  I had been thinking about it for years, since about 1999, and I continue to think about going back to walk another stage, this time with more experience.

WordPress in Firefox on a Mac

This is to check that I don’t have the same problem that I do on blogger with the text appearing outside of the text box.  By default in blogger the code view (edit html) comes up and you have to click the “compose” tab for the “Visual” view.  And then there is also a link for “preview”.  So far,  the WordPress editor is much more “stable”.

Camino de Santiago Video

This is one of the best videos of the camino because it is not just still shots but exerpts from a documentary.  It is in Spanish and is on youtube.

1001 Foods to Die for

My main complaint of this overview of classic dishes from around the world is that each dish leads no where.  The author might give a recipe but he doesn’t give the source for that recipe and my inkling is that it isn’t his recipe because the description of the dish’s preparation often does not jive with the recipe itself.  For instance, in the Baba Ghanoush recipe, he mentions that chopped onion, diced tomato, ground cumin and parsley are added to the dish and yet in the recipe given, none of these appear.  Or he’ll say about Tapenade that it should be ground with a mortar and pestle and then the recipe merely cuts the ingredients into “very small, neat dice”.  (At least in the tapenade recipe he says it is adapted from Tom Colicchio’s The Craft of Cooking).

Whoopee!

Here we go with another blog.  This one will be on gardening, although I don’t think I’ll be growing curubas anytime soon.  Oh, no.  what’s with the images?