Housekeeping note

I've been shifting a few things around behind the scenes here. Please note that my new e-mail account is still sevensoy, but it happens to be located at gmail.com , not earthlink.net as it was previously.

Whew

Any blogger with a Blogger account has been dealing with the Big Transition from old Blogger to Blogger Beta. As of today, Blogger Beta is "the new normal" and this blog finally got to switch over. I am overjoyed about the ability to tag posts, which means I'll be doing a lot of retroactive tagging to old posts (oh, goody, housekeeping). This will diminish the SevenSoy index a great deal, but I think the bibliographic posts will remain on the index. I also look forward to tweaking the template.

Back again

Well, I missed this blog's second birthday yesterday on the 12th, but I'm back now. Vacation was nice, but I'm looking forward to getting back in the swing of food blogging. Better yet, now I (finally) have a digital camera, so hopefully that will add something to the posts.

This image is of a mitsuba seedling. The garden didn't do all that well this year (on the other hand, The Deacon's garden didn't do well either, so I think it was a bad year for gardens in central Jersey), but the mitsuba continued to thrive. Great stuff.

Temporary hiatus

Well, lots of things are currently going on at Sevensoy Central. I'm starting a new job and also have some other projects that need to be dealt with. As a result, I'll be taking a bit of a vacation from Seven Kinds of Soy Sauce. Blogging will recommence in October. In the meantime, I'll leave you with a photo of my donabe, taken with my brand-new digital camera. Until then, happy cooking and eating!

Index changes

I've been pondering making some changes to the index for Seven Kinds of Soy Sauce. I think the ingredients categories have gotten so big as to be unworkable, although I do want to keep the vegetarian category. I'll also keep the categories for countries and cookbooks. One problem is that I can no longer change time and date of a post in Safari, which means I can't ensure that countries or cookbooks sort alphabetically. I did look at the interface in MS Internet Explorer, however, and that does still give the ability to edit post times and dates. I guess it's some sort of Safari-Blogger glitch.

So look for changes in the index soon.