Spent the evening at a music show by the Elliot Freedman Group.
It was hosted by Notional Space, a gift economy run venue that is a unique private home in my neighbourhood.
I love what Mark & Yumi are doing with the space. We need more like this.
#Vancouver #EastVan
Today is my birthday.
This picture is from 49 years ago. 1975, summer, Eagle Cliff Beach on Bowen Island. That’s me being held by my mom.
I had an amazing intro call with part of the Besonda team this week.
It’s a non-profit focused on co-op based cohousing for BC.
I’ve been feeling that something like this needs to exist, so it’s amazing to find an org like this getting started!
#coop #cohousing #BC #housing
It’s Fat / Pancake / Shrove Tuesday so I’m making Eierpfannkuchen for dinner.
Simplest recipe: 2 eggs, 1 cup milk, 1 cup flour. Pinch of salt, pinch of sugar.
I’m just getting started in the pancake mines.
#FoodWiki #German #pancakes #FatTuesday #cooking
My mom made spaetzle for lunch, and had this “Landfrauen kochen - Traditionsrezepte aus Württemberg” cookbook.
Translated “Farm women cooking - traditional recipes from Württemberg”, which is an older Swabian region of Germany centered around Stuttgart.
I watched “Union Street” tonight, a documentary about Vancouver’s historically black neighborhood of Strathcona.
Rather than being focused on displacement, it features a number of great local makers.
The Georgia Straight has a write up. Recommended!
#Vancouver #EastVan #movie #Strathcona
Campaign launch for Tangara Music Player today:
Tangara is a cool, hackable, ESP32-powered music player that provides high-quality audio, long battery life, and a design that’s easy to customize, repair, and upgrade.
It’s the year of tiny hardware, so yes, I ordered one!
#music #openhardware #opensource
Trapped inside or coming out to play?
Our oven bottom burner is broken. It’s going to be painful dealing with our property manager to get fixed.
But it does have me thinking about the Anova Precision Oven.
Anyone have first hand experience with it or something similar — countertop convection + steam?
#FoodWiki
A picture of me cheers-ing with likely some sort of hazy fruit ale somewhere in San Francisco, Jan 27th, 2020.
Old glasses, and I look a younger and skinnier.
Cheers to a “good” 2024 everyone!
#onthisday
Made lard by rendering pork fat in a crock pot (middle jar, white).
I added in 6 yellow onions and let that cook overnight (jar on the right).
The first jar on the left is the broth + fat I scooped out of the onions.
#FoodWiki #food
Found out that Glorious Organics Co-op is going to have a new drop off location for their CSA boxes at Mucker Next Door this year.
Sign up on the website to get notified when they open for new membership.
#Vancouver #CSA #EastVan #coop
Dinner at The Pie Shoppe tonight.
Updated opening hours, added pizza as cuisine for #OsmVancouver
#Vancouver #restaurant #EastVan #pizza #pie
I guess I signed up to get notified of new releases of the Numbeo Cost of Living Index by City. It’s a comparative baseline with NYC as 100%, and there are 362 entries.
Canadian cities start with Victoria at 52nd to Halifax at 83rd. There’s a second cluster with Mississauga at 103rd to Edmonton in 124th place.
#Canada
A list of of 22 bakeries that make delicous bread in Vancouver, by Scout Magazine.
#FoodWiki #Vancouver #bread
The Dystopia is doing great, thanks for asking.
This was a test of a security system at a construction site that I walked past on the weekend. Original audio!
Bread is complete. I’ll let it cool, wrap it, and see how it tastes for breakfast tomorrow.
The “no knead” technique was first widely shared in 2006 in the NY Times Cooking section.
Here’s my entry for it in the FoodWiki.
#FoodWiki #baking #bread
Chad and his wife Kumie gave me a bit of their family miso back in June, in a container in this bag with instructions.
And: おいしくなった, roughly translated as “it will have become delicious”
It is delicious! Thank you friends!
#FoodWiki
We were in North Van today and went to a Filipino restaurant Alloz Grill for lunch.
I had garlic rice with beef stew & a sour tamarind pork soup (pictured), Rachael had all-day-breakfast Longsilog. We got a leche flan to take home.
#FoodWiki #restaurant #Filipino #NorthVan #OsmVancouver
Overnight rise of No-Knead bread recipe. It’s been a long time since I’ve attempted bread.
#FoodWiki #baking
Trying out Phở Jade “the place for noodle soup lovers”.
It’s got a pretty big menu. I tried a large bowl of pho with all the meats to get a baseline.
It’s good! Fragrant floral broth.
#Vancouver #EastVan #FoodWiki #pho #restaurant #Vietnamese #OsmVancouver
Turns out it’s Timbertrain’s 10th anniversary — and they’re doing a giveaway raffle if you subscribe to their newsletter.
This is my #EastVan local and before that the #Gastown location was our afternoon macchiato stop.
#Vancouver #coffee
Rachael got started shovelling, I finished it off and did the sidewalk.
I took the second picture where you can see it’s snowing enough to start covering things again.
#Vancouver #snow #BCStorm
Jazzed my way through making a beef stew with lots of onions, red wine, and roasted red peppers.
It’s similar to Spanish Chilindron, when I went to go look for recipes afterwards.
I was thinking about paprika, but just added some tomato paste & Calabrian chillies right at the end.
#FoodWiki
I got all my Google Maps saved places exported and imported into FacilMap.
But! They’re all just labelled as “Point” and lost the name of the business.
More research on GeoJSON and FacilMap import formats needed.