Bookseller, baker, ricotta-cheese maker. I'm a reader, a wannabe writer, have a mothballed J.D., and am little bit crazy. These are the days of my lives.
Posted in YouTube, flickr, food, just plain silly, links, photos, recipes, wine on May 6th, 2010
Beyonce, girlfriend, forget rings. You and I have got to talk about fried eggs. Especially this one. Because there’s this woman Deb, she runs an excellent website, and she has a recipe I think you will like– because see that glossy, fried golden egg on top of it all? This is a recipe all the […]
Posted in cooking, flickr, food, links, photos, recipes on Apr 22nd, 2010
You will never want noodles again. Fine Cooking’s Chicken Soup with Lime and Hominy. Yum doesn’t even begin to describe it.
I made the following changes. (What? Me, leave a recipe all on its own?) I let the chicken dry-season with the salt, pepper, and oregano called for in the recipe while I sauteed the onion, […]
Posted in cooking, flickr, food, links, photos, recipes on Apr 19th, 2010
The new drugs I’m on kill my appetite.
Kill. I have no sense of fullness until– boom– I’m suddenly nauseous– and if I eat something too sweet, it gets my gag on something fierce.
There’s a post I’ve been working on– badly– forever, it seems, about food and control and issues of fatness and thinness and all […]
Posted in baking, bipolar, cooking, flickr, food, links, photos, recipes on Apr 9th, 2010
So– say you’ve been sick for a while– a never-ending cold that dragged on for a month, your cyclical spring depression and a brief, scary manic burst of irrational rage, various family things going on, etc., and you’ve also got to work and get up every day and at least pretend to the outside world […]
Posted in Better Half, bipolar, flickr, good things, links, photos, sparkly on Apr 6th, 2010
Well, since my last post, it hasn’t quite been boils, fell beasts and death– but there have been a variety of dramas and ailments. To acknowledge the hard times of late, my Better Half bought me a present on what was– for me– not a Good Friday at all.
Pics, ’cause it happened.
But wait. There is more. […]
Posted in cooking, flickr, food, links, photos, recipes on Jan 4th, 2010
Holy crap, y’all. I cooked twice this week and not only lived to tell the tale, I also took pictures. After all of the working I’ve been doing, this hit the spot.
See? See? It’s true! The cook thing in my screen name isn’t all a vile lie. Pinky-swear.
This is roughly– very– based on this recipe from […]
Posted in Deep Thoughts, cooking, flickr, friends, links, photos on Jan 3rd, 2010
So, there’s this “cook” thing in my screen name. And I do it, sometimes. Amazing, I know.
Et voila, proof of the photographic variety, because you’re all no, we do not believe it. All you do is bitch about people without their receipts. Because you’ve never lost one piece of paperwork in your life.
So. Recipes, of a sort.
Zucchini, shredded […]
Posted in good things, photos on Oct 5th, 2009
I mean… look at him. Do I even need to add words?
He’s teething, and yet he was soooo good when I walked him around the block a few times while his Mom was getting her back cracked. He’s so smiley and … gah. Just adorable. (Although, not having to change his diaper and his actually eating […]
Posted in Better Half, flickr, food, links, photos on May 27th, 2009
There are a variety of things we’d stopped doing as a couple, one of which was Road Trips. Not every weekend, but many, the BH and I used to just go for a drive and see where we landed. It’s not great for the planet, sure, but it was good for us. We listened to […]
Posted in Pantry cooking, books, cooking, flickr, food, ham sandwich, links, photos, recipes on May 23rd, 2009
Okay– I admit that my fridge and pantry contain ingredients that are not “average.” But I still have to clean the sucker out and use food up before it goes bad. Times are tough, starving children in Africa, it’s a sin to waste food, or you’re just a cheap Yankee like me– any way you […]