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Jam Session

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 [...]

Baby’s First Bento

I was going to make a post about my lovely weekend (we had a weekend, it was lovely, my beloved Emily was here, there was a wonderful bugler and a horrible choir of bagpipes in the cemetery, and we had friends in for bubble tea and several hours of karaoke on Sunday, because that’s how [...]

How to Caramelize Onions

A week or two back, someone on Metafilter asked what people’s power ingredients were–what do you add to your cooking that makes it amazing?
My answer, obviously, was caramelized onions, which I will eat on pretty much anything, including a spoon. I also explained how to caramelize onions, since it’s a sad fact of life [...]

Mother’s Day, a day late

Some people, for Mother’s Day, do things like go out to breakfast. Maybe they go to church for a special blessing of some kind, or they–god forbid–sleep in.
Not so much, around here. My Mother’s Day morning found me sleeping on the floor at my mother-in-law’s house. (This is less strange than it seems, as [...]

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Jam Session

Baby’s First Bento

How to Caramelize Onions

Mother’s Day, a day late

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