The Feels of Springtime
There's, like, eight feet of snow outside. We can't even open the back door. I've been digging out the back door by harvesting snow to feed my carnivorous plants (they are fickle and don't like city water). Meanwhile, INSIDE the apartment, it's like some kind of...
Ash Wednesday & pancakes
Scallion Pancakes for Ash Wednesday? Awww YEAH. What more a perfect way to bring in the season than allium? They are the quintessential representative of spring. And I happened to have some sitting in a jar that needed to be used up. Do you know what else I had to...
It’s still snowing, but we’ve got sourdough, so we don’t care.
The past few weeks have been trying, to put it kindly. I've decided to stop complaining about the weather, as there's nothing about it that can be done. So, fine. We'll just do a little bit of indoor stuff, like MAKE THE MOST AWESOME FOODS. I've been trying to...
All Signs Point
Oh. My. Stars. My friend, Petra, invited me to go with her, her husband and her sister to Niantic for their annual pilgrimage to the 30% off book sale at the Book Barn. So first of all: The Book Barn. My first visit to The Book Barn was with my dear friend Eggie a...
The Storm Has Passed
Well, it is January, and we had a storm. It is New England, after all, and we've been pretty lucky with a reasonably warm winter thus far. I heard the total accumulation was only 18" or something, but some of our drifts are waist-high, as you can see here: Really,...
Kombucha Cozies
So last night I started a 2 new batches of kombucha: one from the baby SCOBY, and one from a forming SCOBY from a GT Kombucha purchase. This left me with the momma SCOBY, and I left her in the jar with her liquid, hoping she'll make more babies with herself. I got to...