Posted in Building Cookbooker on Sep 29th, 2009
Just a quick list of updates to the Cookbooker website based on some feedback from the great folks at the LibraryThing cookbookers group (not affiliated with the Cookbooker website, just well named!).
You can now use ISBNs to add books to your library, avoiding confusion among books with multiple editions. I’ve also added Sauces to the [...]
Posted in Cooking on Sep 24th, 2009
It’s incredibly easy to make yogurt at home. I had no idea how simple it was until I tried it myself. As one of our users, Marita, writes on Cookbooker, “I was scared to make my own yogurt“. Before I made it, much like Marita, I’d assumed it was like microbiology – you had to [...]
Posted in Locavore on Sep 24th, 2009
There’s been a farmer’s market here now for three years. A proper farmer’s market that is – one where most of the vendors are farmers (80%, I believe) and not jam makers and crafty folk as the Friday market in Nanaimo has been for ages. It has a great location, with lots of room, and [...]
Posted in Building Cookbooker on Sep 21st, 2009
Cookbooker was built on a fairly standard LAMP platform. Since I have a day job, it was an evenings and weekends labour of love, and I taught myself PHP and MySQL programming using books and web resources.
Posted in Locavore on Sep 19th, 2009
It seems fitting that I’m starting this blog with a visit to a local farm for ingredients.
Gary Argyle has a great little organic farm on Maxey Road in Nanaimo. We usually go every Saturday morning for fresh carrots, onions and garlic. The girls and I contentedly munch carrots as we walk back to the [...]
