Man, clafoutis, am I right? Yes. The answer is yes. Clafoutis, in case you just walked in and are too dumb to do the Google, is a French dish where you take raw, sherry-drizzled cherries and pour a thickened custard-type batter over the top, then bake until the custard cooks. Top with toasted slivered almonds [...]
Tagged adventures in cooking, awesomeWhy is this so great? Fucked if I know, but it was fast, easy, and they taste good. Plus I revelled in my independent adulthood and ate the jam straight from the jar. Stand back, bitches.
Tagged adventures in cookingIt was a close thing. I mean, I thought I would easily escape success when I decided to make crème brûleé with soy milk. C’mon, doesn’t that sound like disaster? But after suffering through the success of my soy-based clafoutis and the soy crème caramel – both terrible, terrible victories that left all tasters stricken with [...]
Tagged adventures in cookingIt took me eight weeks — from the end of October to the end of December — to finish my first trial run of Recycled Red, the dress I’m knitting. Eight weeks of steady progression (one or two minor rip-backs, but nothing to blog home about) to complete a dress roughly two sizes too big. [...]
Tagged recycled redThere are two piles of books on my bookshelf — actually, if I was going for strict realism, I would have to mention that these two piles are not alone, that the shelves are crammed full of the damn things, but for the purposes of this discussion, I want to point out that it is [...]
Tagged reading timeHow else do you explain how this completely knitted dress: spontaneously became this: It’s got to be time-travel. Somehow, my knitted dress, which only required ends-weaving and tender blocking, has de-evolved into a pile of yarn cakes, a rumpled pattern and a new cast-on. Wait, I think I’ve got it: the cognitive collision caused when [...]
Tagged recycled redFood food food food food food food food. There’s a lot of it about lately. It’s December 30 today, which means we’re approaching the final hump before we can put aside obligatory festive gluttony. I’m starting to feel like I haven’t been hungry for a week: I have been either staying with family, had visitors [...]
Tagged foodI swear I only cast this on the other day. There’s nothing in that picture to give you a sense of size: that WIP goes from past my knees to just under meine kleine booben. Lots of knitting right there. Lemme check Ravelry. 30 October, you say? Well, that seems pretty reasonable. Two months for [...]
Tagged recycled redDo you do puzzles? I do. I’m talking here about jigsaw puzzles, those epic challenges of shape rotation, pattern matching and searching. (You can keep those ones that are a picture of nothing but baked beans, those are just guess-and-check exercises in martyrdom; you can tell they were invented for the “so-and-so likes puzzles, let’s [...]
It’s December 11, the eleventh day of summer, and it’s cool, wet, windy and hail-y. There’s rain, there’s thunder and lightning (there’s a brown dog FREAKING OUT on my couch), and it’s only about 20°C. I could get used to this. Good things about summer: Cherries. Just bought a kilo from the farmers’ markets for [...]
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