Look, I’m not going to lie to you. This is a post about a tomato. Just one. (Well, from there I extrapolate, but seriously, I’m only featuring one here.) If you are not the kind of person to nod thoughtfully about some comments on and photos of a homegrown tomato from a first-timer, then this [...]
Also tagged sproutyFor reasons that are too tedious to go into, there was a recent experimentation with beer as a hair conditioner Chez Spoonfully (results: not unpleasant, not smelly, not sticky, did not attract ants, but not spectacular either). For the purposes of said experimentation, half a stubby of Guinness Stout was directed to the follicles, leaving [...]
Also tagged adventures in cookingOkay okay okay, last breakfast-babble. I want to talk about fruit. Who doesn’t? (Kindly ask them to leave.) In posting the following, I may easily alienate many northern-hemisphere readers, who are currently snowed in. I got this out of my garden the other morning: We bought our house in winter, and spring was an awesome [...]
Also tagged adventures in cookingBecause I apparently can’t shut up on this topic. Right, here’s how to have breakfast, folks, and to have it fast. If I had a degree in marketing, I’d probably say something like “Here’s how to have break-fast!!” and that’s why we’re all glad I have no marketing-related qualifications. Moving on. In my last breakfast-related [...]
Also tagged adventures in cookingTrust me, this is relevant: I don’t like hot weather. But there’s a lot about summer I love: the longer evenings, going barefoot, bushwalking, swimming, picnics. Cherries. Cherries get dirt cheap around Christmas, occasionally dropping to astonishing prices like $4 per kilo. That’s mondo cheap. That’s stupid cheap. This year, so everyone keeps telling me, [...]
Also tagged adventures in cookingDudes, I rock. You’re always the last to know, right? This is the finale of this summer’s have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too knitting. The conclusion of Coachella! Having finished Agave satisfactorily (I wear it as I type), I diverted all remaining yarn to the pursuit of Coachella. Which meant tiny scrap balls and a rogue i-cord from a project [...]
Also tagged Coachella, FO ReportMy have-my-cake-and-eat-it-too knitting experiment is concluding and the early signs point to TRIUMPH. Having calculated that I had enough bamboo to make one of the two tanks I wanted, I got a cramp in the brain and decided to make both anyway. The first to finish: the Agave tank. Agave lace in detail (I’ve used [...]
Also tagged Agave, FO ReportToday is the glorious anniversary of my Dadini’s birth! My Dadini rocks. He can fix anything (his current recreational project is the disassembly-and-restoration-and-reassembly of a vintage bulldozer) and solves all my car and house problems with a clarity and efficiency of thought that I can only dream of emulating. Unlike me, he has never cried [...]
Also tagged adventures in cooking, bakingHow can it be that I am fundamentally an impatient person and yet still have an ingrained, Pavlovian passion for things that, by definition, require time and plenty of it? Is this some sort of unconscious self-punishment? Knitting, playing music, writing: all demand the slow tick tick tick of patient, tiny steps that make progress [...]
Also tagged adventures in cooking, baking, banging onIf I intended this to be a comprehensive exploration of the above title, this would be a long post indeed. I could probably have a whole blog dedicated to the topic. And what a twee, dull blog it would be. So, instead, I’ve confined myself to the things that are pleasing me, right now, this [...]
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