Stumped for inspiration, yet finding myself in the kitchen armed with a spoon and a bowl, I turned my attention to the Foodin’ Challenge List! Today’s spectacular triumph: cornbread. Cornbread is so easy I feel a bit embarrassed about listing it anywhere even tangentially connected to the word “challenge”. It’s easier than muffins. It’s easier [...]
Tagged adventures in cooking, awesome, The Learn-How ListToday is Sunday and I’m moving slowly and small-ly. Partly because of… …who has been living with us this week. A hairy brown peanut of cuddles and wags. But it hasn’t been all peaches and farts around here: on Wednesday night we were treated to three renditions plus encore of her rarely-heard HOWCK-SPLAT solo concerto [...]
Tagged awesome, banging onThe Volcano Lover: A Romance – Susan Sontag See, here’s why I love libraries. Book shops you gots to spend coin, so you get a bit risk-averse and you’re more likely to go with what you know. Second hand book shops, less so (less coin, so less risk) so that’s a bit better. Libraries: zilch. [...]
Tagged reading timeEvery second person I speak to has too much of something. After I finished the fantastic backyard plum crop, my Mumini brought me a share of white-fleshed nectarines that one of her coworkers had dropped off — my share amounted to about 3kg. I gained about the same of fresh homegrown apples in the same [...]
Tagged abundance, adventures in cookingBlack coffee continues apace! Seems to be knitting itself. I tried searching for ways in which it is like actual coffee, for the purposes of contorting a simple, pleasant pattern nickname into a lengthy metaphor that groaningly weighs this post down into the depths of pundom. Then I stopped. Thank me in the comments. Like [...]
Tagged Black CoffeeI’m roaring through books like you wouldn’t believe, suckin’ down sentences like an arm through a sleeve; don’t miss a word or chapter, don’t to the end skip, jump back Loretta, I gots pages to flip. Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis I finished American Pyschoa while back and it was so great it [...]
Tagged reading timeI can’t wait to see how many title puns I can make with this project. I’m knitting Black Coffee with dedication and commitment. I had the camera out anyway and it was a beautiful day for photographing black cables. There’s not heaps to report: it’s a good pattern, but there’s not a lot of variety. [...]
Tagged Black CoffeeIf you felt a slight shift in the globe’s gravitational pull today, be not alarmed. It’s simply that my awesomeness has expanded to new, stellar levels and there had to be a slight planetary adjustment to accommodate it. This weekend I made a lovely banana cake. I roasted some coffee, I dabbled with a bit [...]
Tagged awesomeToday I ticked a big one off the 2012 Cooking Challenges list: making pasta. I’ve made it before, but it was pretty wobbly and I wasn’t too proud of it. I haven’t made it solo since M and I bought a pasta-roller-dealie: we’ve been making our own pasta for ages (which is to see M [...]
Tagged adventures in cooking, awesome, The Learn-How ListGo to Hell, chia seeds. Stupid fad food. I’m really annoyed at the chia seed thing. Sure, they’ve got loads of protein and omega-3 and bind things together — you know what else does? Eggs. Free-range eggs from the farmer’s markets, where I’m friendly with the sellers and you can look at photos of them [...]
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