I’ve been reading a lot of Oh She Glows lately: her cooking looks awesome and she clearly has a place in her heart for oats equal to mine. All her biscuits and cakes and slices look so nourishing, full of oats and seeds and fruit. Ooh yeah, toast my granola. I love finding new ways [...]
Also tagged bakingIt’s been a stockpiling day. It’s also been one of the most intensely autumnal days you can imagine. Seriously, if some really lazy hack movie director wanted a setting that bellowed “AUTUMN” at the viewer, they would have designed a day like today. Cool, breezy, leaves everywhere; frost all over the car this morning and [...]
Also taggedAs I wended my windy wallowing way around the (w)internet, nibbling blogs and sampling, uh, other blogs, I came across Mostly Eating. It’s an incredibly pretty food blog and I’m a sucker for a pretty blog, but then I spotted a post about breakfasts. Well, by now you should know how I feel about breakfasts [...]
Also tagged adventures in cooking, breakfast(1) Compost is far more interesting than I ever thought it would be. That stuff blows my mind. One minute it’s all tea bags and coffee grounds and onion peels, the next week BAM: loam crawling with earthworms. I don’t have to do a damn thing except keep it fed and watered, and it turns [...]
Also tagged banging on, sproutyLeaves are totally hot right now ’round here. And my backyard is full of fruit trees! Ah, the glory. Meanwhile, a curly, octopus-armed green thing is loving itself around the railing on the back porch: Since there’s no grapes yet, a grapevine can only mean one thing. It’s dolmades season. Want to know how to [...]
Also taggedI’ve been trusting the magical culinary dwarves in my kitchen a lot lately. And, frankly, I think that’s why I’ve had a string of duds. While they were out gathering dibbleberries or whatever the hell they eat (frankly, it smells disgusting), I had a sneaky peep in their quarters under the sink, and, well: all [...]
Also tagged adventures in cookingWhat? Doesn’t this fill your heart with joy and your mouth with eagerness? Really? Sheesh. Sweet bitty-lucking fries, these photos are driving me crazy with desire — and the real thing is only about two metres away from me. I spent an hour or so after lunch yesterday with M and my Mumini following the [...]
Also tagged awesomeI’m home sick, cuddled up with my laptop and this gal: Which is not without its rewards. Addison’s disease is an odd beast, and learning to dance with it is a slow and clumsy process. Problems can come on so quickly that you hardly have time to compensate with your meds, or they can come [...]
Also tagged Addison'sIt’s been a domestic weekend. The house has been cleaned and aired out, the fridge is stuffed with groceries, the washing up has vanished, and I even folded up and put away all the washed clothes, instead of leaving them in the basket on top of the washing machine to be rifled through like some [...]
Also tagged awesomeWe found a new bread recipe! Incredibly easy, and slooooooow. Slow like Sunday afternoons. Slow like syrup. Slow like me learning how to use Gimp. Slow like committee meetings. Slow like bank queues. Slow like dial-up internet. M discovered the recipe, although I’m afraid that it’s a New York Times link, which can be a [...]
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