1. See that? That’s maybe my new favorite picture. Maura and Basil are both totally convinced that he’s a lapdog, and apparently they’re just going to keep doing that until I believe them. Hilarious. You should also know that this picture was taken in a brief pause in their desperate wiggling, Basil attempting to lick [...]
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Back over the summer, I went on a canning binge. I canned salsas and jams, pickled cauliflower and onions, and also did a few jars of roasted peppers. I’d never done them before, so I was sort of worried–I love roasted peppers, and we go through jar upon jar of them, but there are a [...] Part of the massive canning spree a few weeks ago was putting up about nine pints of salsa. Really mild salsa, since Maura is still resistant to things that she feels are “too spicy”, but salsa nonetheless. I know I mentioned that a few weeks ago, we went apple picking. At the same farm, they had pick-your-own raspberries. Initially, we were picking three pints. Just three–only three. Who needs more than three pints of raspberries? Last weekend, we went berry picking at Pioneer Trail Orchard, which–for those of you who are local–is out in Hiram. The crazed fit of preserving over the weekend was mostly a success. I didn’t quite finish everything I’d hoped to, but I was pretty close. I also figured out where to store everything–my kitchen’s quite small, and doesn’t have nearly enough storage room for the sort of cooking and pantry-stocking that I do. This was my plan for the weekend as of Thursday night: Go to the Indians game on Friday, hang out on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, maybe tidying the guest room or the dining room. Flower pic taken at my parents’ house over the weekend. I’m slowly training myself to pay attention to the ways that light falls, and I really like how this turned out–the foreground flower lit strongly, and the rest of the flowers fading into the distance. I’m not a vegan. I realize that a year or two back, vegan cupcakes allegedly took over the world, but that seems to have died down, and I have to admit that I never got around to trying said cupcakes. I tell you this not to establish some sort of anti-vegan bias (there isn’t one) [...] 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. |
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