2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 26,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 6 Film Festivals

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Reefnetting on Lummi Island

Shake the hand that feeds you…

…even when it’s covered with fish guts! Here’s my husband’s first attempt at an iMovie – all about our trip to Lummi Island to meet the wonderful fishermen and women who provide fish for the AAWSM fish-buying club that I manage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhvgCnV0r68.

A big thank you to Dave, Keith, Lynne, Morgan, Ian, Connor, and Tanner for showing us what they do to bring us their delightful salmon.

You can read more about Lummi Island Wild Reefnet Salmon on their site and all about our trip in the Simply: Home Cooking Newsletter, What’s Cooking? If you live in the Ann Arbor area and love wild-caugh ocean fish, email me about the buying club!

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 24,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 9 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Happy Year of the Rabbit!

…which means our own little Rabbit is turning 12 this year – YIKES!

Happy New Year!

Haven’t had time to breathe, much less do much cooking, since returning from vacation! Back next week with a new recipe, but here’s a fun chart to help you keep your New Year’s Resolution to shop for real food at the grocery store: How Can You Tell If They’re Real?

 

Chef’s Vacation!

See you in 2 weeks!

Thanks for the link!

Tangstein’s Blog: Healthy Chinese Home Cooking has been listed as one of the Guide to Culinary Schools‘ “Best Asian Cooking Blogs!”

Gone fishin’!

Back next week with more home cookin’ and issues on the food front.

New from Let’s Move

Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign is going strong with a new initiative to obliterate obesity within one generation. I was struck by 2 recent posts on the Let’s Move website, perhaps not for the right reasons:

The May 14th post about Alice Deal Middle School in DC does not really say much new - there are manu such programs and partnerships (this one with Whole Foods) that are entering public schools in an attempt to instruct about healthy eating. What it does bring home is that folks in the administration are finally paying attention to the fact that many parents have stopped being responsible for the proper nutrition of their children (or perhaps more to the point, the parents are all too responsible for their children’s poor nutritional status). Sad but true – it’s now the children who must take home what they learn and teach their parents.

Sam Kass’ post on Chefs Move to Schools  made me optimistic that perhaps more chefs (well-known and more obscure) would start to work for change in the child nutrition field rather than spending innumerable hours trying to be the next top chef and founder of the newest food fad. But then again, I’m not sure I want some of the star tv chefs teaching my children about healthy eating – one bacon doughnut egg burger comes to mind….