Mexican Feast

I decided to make Mexican hot chocolate cookies. I have no idea where this craving came from, but I’m glad it happened! I browsed the internet for recipes and knew that the one at Post Punk Kitchen would be the best. I had just made the rosemary chocolate chip cookies [pictured] from PPK for Thanksgiving, and they were everything I hoped and dreamed. Continue reading →

Food as Expression

I don’t really think of myself as an artist. I don’t think of myself as very creative. But the reasons I don’t think of myself as artistic or creative is because I have been stuck thinking about creativity as strictly painting, sculpting, writing music, writing stories… I can’t do any of those things well (in fact, I’m so bad at writing that it takes me several days just to write one of these posts). But I can make a damn good chocolate chip cookie from scratch, with my own recipe. And I can start with just some chopped onions and create a savory mushroom soup. And I can tweak ingredients and work with what I have on hand and explore new methods. Sometimes I make mistakes, like trying to make a cheese sauce without first making a roux *YUCK*, but I learn from those mistakes and improve next time. All of this takes creativity and I just never realized it. Continue reading →

Eating dead animals makes me feel weird.

This has been sitting in my drafts folder for a while. Where do I begin? The title describes my feelings pretty well. Eating dead animals really does make me feel weird (in my mind, not gastrointestinally). I am going to try to lay out my journey to officially claiming the title of “vegetarian” as opposed to “flexitarian“. Continue reading →

The Cream of Celery Curse

The grocer I frequent has a nifty manager’s special rack. All the things that didn’t get sold at their full price and just aren’t selling enough at general discount prices get tossed in this pile and marked way down. Sometimes even down to 99 cents. As you can imagine, cream of celery soup ends up there frequently. What the heck are you supposed to do with cream of celery soup? I can think of some casseroles, but I prefer cream of mushroom for those. Continue reading →

Interests

Here is a list of the types of information you will find at jessikagriffin.com

  • Transportation! Related specifically to bicycles and public transportation
  • Food! Everything from personal recipes to local and global food issues
  • Sustainability! If we kill all the humans, we can save the forest…
  • Sex and gender issues in the U.S. and abroad
  • Issues related to secularism, atheism, skepticism, and freethought
  • Government! As a Public Management major, I’ve learned more about government than I’d like.