A few weeks back, the New York Times posted a recipe by Melissa Clark: Olive Oil Granola with Dried Apricots and Pistachios. I love a good granola, which for me means lots of seeds/nuts, some sort of fruit, and a bit of salt. This sounded right up my alley. Then I looked at the ingredients [...]
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A while back, I posted about making peach-poblano jam and said that I’d post the cherry-vanilla jam soon. Soon is now! Jars of jam all finished up, and some of the cherry-vanilla jam in action–in a teacup with some Greek yogurt. I love jam on yogurt. With the peach jam, I got to start right [...] He’s called Charlie, because he looks just like Lola. (Further reading, if you don’t get the reference.) It was a compromise–I wanted to call him George, but Maura was lobbying for Twinkles. So, uh, hey, look, a kitty! Hey, look, a cucumber! Remember how I was saying that it turned out that my cucumbers were watermelons? Turns out that I was totally wrong, and at least one of the plants is, in fact, a cucumber. Apparently cucumber flowers and watermelon flowers look a lot alike–I figured five-petaled yellow flowers were going to be [...] Howie (L) and Rupert (R) snuggle on top of Maura’s dresser. They loved not having her here–for the first time ever, they were allowed in her room. I think that all of the cats spent a substantial amount of time either on top of her dresser or on her bed. I have a lot of [...] First, important garden news. Two nights ago, Nick and I ate the stuff in the picture above for supper. Thumb-sized baby carrots! A tomato that looks somewhat pallid in the picture but was, in fact, both perfectly ripe and delicious. Today I took another tomato off the same plant (a Better Bush, for those of [...] The garden, it seems, is pretty much exploding with tomatoes. Livia tells me that I have planted too many, but I think that she’ll end up being wrong. Between putting up sauce, canning tomatoes, and possibly making ketchup–which I’ve always wanted to do but have never actually done–I think that I’m going to still need [...] Lookit the stupid sleepy kitty! I actually have a bunch of things that I mean to post about, but for the moment, hey, have a picture of a cat! I’m told that people like that sort of thing around here. Maura’s been with my mom for the last week, and it’s been–I feel horrible saying [...] See that? That, my friends, is food from my garden. Lovingly cradled in my shirt, because I am unorganized and didn’t have a basket or anything, and it was going starting to rain, so I didn’t want to go back inside to find one. Last night I made supper, and everything green in it (swiss [...] |
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