Many Thanks... And Sustainable Diet News!

Setting a good example... But seriously, gross. 

It's been an exciting few weeks at Sustainable Diet!

First of all, I caught this enormous man-eater normal-sized fish at the family farm this weekend (like how far away from my face I'm keeping it?), then conscientiously objected when it was time to fillet it. It was released back into the tank to populate it with more freshwater bass. But that big catch is not the only reason I'm grinning from ear to ear (while wearing obscenely large sunglasses).

I am thrilled and amazed and encouraged by the readers of Sustainable Diet. Seriously. I'm realizing that more and more of you are out there—SD is finding readership in the vastness of the interwebs. Thank you to all of you who have been reading, commenting, Tweeting, Pinning, and more.

I've been given some fantastic opportunities; first, there was the Twitter event with Good Guide, Practically Green, and more in the last week of March, which translated to lots of great conversation (and link love for SD). The icing on the cake, though, is my first guest post over at Whole Foods' Whole Story blog—all about backyard vegetable gardening.

All this to say that I am so grateful to all of you who have stopped by and read Sustainable Diet; my hope is that it has encouraged and entertained you, perhaps even influenced the way you think about food. And I hope you stick around, because I have many great plans for Sustainable Diet! These plans include, but are not limited to, more garden info, more recipes, and even guest contributors.

From the bottom of my heart, thanks for reading—and sharing. It makes for one very encouraged, happy writer, that's for sure.


And now for something completely different!


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New Year's Resolutions

For Christmas, the kitchen gifts were lavished upon me. Between Ryan, my parents, Ryan's parents and his aunt, I made out like a serious kitchen bandit. At this rate, there will be nothing on my hypothetical wedding registry. ;) There were the books...

And the KitchenAid pasta attachments...
Then there were the Give It A Rest spoons made from organic bamboo...
And of course, the bread machine.
There were also a handful of vintage cake stands. That adds up to 7,500 new recipes and techniques, at least 10 new tools, a great deal of time- and energy-saving tactics, and even enough flair to show it all off to guests.

This means I have a lot of work to do. We even got a 25% off coupon from Greenling (since we haven't ordered in months), so I put in our order and next week we'll get a shipment of fresh local goodies. Let the cooking begin!

Tomorrow I'm going to try soyrizo, cheese, and green chile empanadas with my famous salsa. And soon I'd like to make cinnamon raisin swirl bread. With just shy of 10K recipes to try, time's a wastin.

Ryan is preoccupied with bicycle maintenance (I just heard an "uhoh" followed by a not-so-healthy-sounding gear spin from the makeshift bike shop in our living room) so that leaves me with plenty of time to try my hand at new things in our kitchen. And yes, we're "organized" enough that I was able to get everything to fit in our cabinets and still managed to make the kitchen look LESS cluttered. Hi-five.

All this to say...this year I plan on cooking a LOT, keeping the kitchen clean, and blogging all about it. So, readers, hold me to it! If you catch me not blogging, I'll bake you a loaf of bread. :)