Why Restless Chipotle? Why not The Invisible Foodie or The Great Recipe Blog?
Food is a restless art form, as changeable as the ocean in autumn. What works one day may not work the next and flavors that compete in one dish may find themselves lovers in the next. There is a poetry in food, and the magic possibility of a new discovery every time you pick up a whisk.
Restless Chipotle is more than spicy foods, although you may find that there are spicy recipes tucked among the recipes for chocolate mousse and apple pie. It is anything and everything that is important about food.
Saving money? Check.
Challenging your inner chef? Check
Learning to shop locally? Check
Organics? Check
Table settings? Vintage kitchenware? Getting the family involved? Product reviews?
Check. Check. Check…and Check!
In fact there is only one thing that you won’t find on these pages.
Boredom.
I am still working with the looks of the blog, and the template to get it just right. In the meantime, step over that pile of crumbled plaster, and move the amber shellac container off that chair. There you go.
Have a seat, maybe a cup of tea, and a cookie and lets see where this takes us, shall we?
Image (c) Restless Chipotle
I know I said I had a ton of posts and I do..but this is immediately important. There is a bill in Congress that would basically ban sustainable living, as well as organic farming, on a national scale. Yes, you guessed it. It is Monsanto again. Apparently, they have swallowed some of their own genetically engineered oooblek and have become the Nightmare on Elm Street…and Main Street…and any other street you would like to mention. Few things get my blood boiling but government sticking their nasty fingers in my food is one of the few things that does…followed closely with government sticking their hands in my pockets and government sticking their nose in the way I raise my children. After all, Americans have loved their Constitutional rights and the freedoms that they guarantee enough to shed oceans of blood over those freedoms. And now they are getting taken away, one by one, and we are accepting it with open arms.
The small family farm has always been part of the American landscape. Imagine driving though Ohio, Pennsylvania, or Idaho and not seeing those hardworking farmers on tractors, or fixing fence, or something. The popularity of the book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver is not just because of her fantastic writing ability. It is the American Dream.
And Monsanto is the Hamburgler, Snidely Whiplash, and the Blob all rolled into one. Only it isn’t funny, it isn’t a cartoon, and it isn’t going to end after thirty minutes.
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