"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Food & Snacks, Holidailies 2013 on Dec 19th, 2013
Apologies to Maggie Mason and “Nobody Cares What You Had For Lunch.” I’ve long held that cold pizza is the ideal breakfast. Couple of slices of leftover pizza, fresh from the fridge, and a big, hot cup of coffee. Dunno if there’s a finer meal to start the day. Oh, sure, a fresh bagel spread […]
Posted in Food & Snacks on May 14th, 2013
Make marmalade? At least, that’s what I’ve done. A while back, I bought a large sack of grapefruits because I am wild about grapefruit, plus the price was extremely tempting. Apparently, they were on knockdown price because they weren’t very good. There was something a bit off about the flavor and the texture. Most of […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Food & Snacks, Up The Pole, Weird as Hell on Apr 18th, 2013
Ahem. One day you may be very hungry, awash with strange hormones, and absentmindedly considering what in the cupboard you could eat at the moment. In that moment, do not get any blinding brain flashes which lead you to concoct a beetroot smoothie. It will not be nice. It will not be good. You will […]
Posted in Delight, Food & Snacks, Holidailies 2012, Recommendations, Shopping, Well I'll Be Darned on Dec 21st, 2012
This is a box of Taylor’s of Harrogate Earl Grey Tea. By anybody’s standards, this is a pretty damn good box of tea. I got it at the corner shop for $3, which is seriously a steal. At The Better Cheddar down on the Plaza, Taylor’s clocks in at $9 for a box of 50 […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Food & Snacks, Holidailies 2012 on Dec 12th, 2012
So, the other day I posted this: which the astute among you might recognise as an old Tupperware box full of cookies shaped like pine trees. They are, in fact, a modified version of Neva’s Sugar Cookies, flavored with peppermint essence and run through the Mirro Cookie Press. Before I continue, I’d like to provide […]
Posted in Food & Snacks, Holidailies 2012, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog, videos on Dec 9th, 2012
Well, I completely forgot about logging in and posting anything yesterday. Pretty much this is what the bulk of my day consisted of. Pressure-cooking beans. Then Joel and I went out to dinner, came back home, and watched Smokey And The Bandit, which Joel had borrowed from the library. Today, I began the annual holiday […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Delight, Distractions, dumb things I have done, Food & Snacks, NaBloPoMo 2011, Notions and Rants, Utter Silliness, Words I Like on Nov 17th, 2011
Oh man, I have brainmeats problems. A month or so ago I read an article online where this guy decided to try recipes or foodstuffs mentioned in The Simpsons. I laughed myself silly, as you do. Especially over the notion of Corn Nog, which sounds really fucking disgusting. I mean! Almost as bad as fuzzy […]
Posted in Food & Snacks, NaBloPoMo 2011 on Nov 2nd, 2011
So yeah, I’ve been making a crapton of soup lately since it’s fall and all. Last week, I did make a variant on carrot-and-coriander. It also involved ginger, red lentils, and garbanzo beans. It was really, really good. I made the broth basically of the pureed carrot/cilantro stuff, then added a bit of coriander (ground […]
Posted in Adventures, biking, Food & Snacks, Garden, Ruby the Dog on May 30th, 2011
I went on a dual-purpose ride today. First objective was to give the dog a run: Second objective was to scavenge up as many ripe mulberries as I could: I made an scouting trip yesterday with the dog, and just snacked on mulberries as I find them, but made plans to come back again…with tupperware! […]
Posted in Food & Snacks on Apr 8th, 2010
I had a really good dinner tonight. It was another festival of garbanzo beans (I’ve really been digging the garbanzo beans lately…also I keep trying to spell it been, and may just go ahead and end up doing that) I had a sack of red lentils that needed to be used up, so I cooked […]