The Monster Half (and 10-mile) are coming up in a couple weeks and I can't decide if I want to run another 10-mile without training much for it or not. On one hand, the last one turned out really well, especially relative to the effort I put into it. On the other hand....I'm not sure if Lilabeth would be able to do it with me or not. (But there' ( Read more... )

My mother knows of my cooking experiments this past year, with the CSA and generally getting sick of eating the same five meals over and over again and all. So she keeps bringing a different cookbook from the library every time she sees me. The latest one was from Clotilde Dusoulier, the author of Chocolate & Zucchini, a food blog which has been ( Read more... )

( Today I did a lot of stuff )

Fortunately, I have nothing going on tomorrow which would necessitate I leave the house with my car
as that sounds like it will suck.

*looks at her calendar*

Oh, wait. I'm supposed to wade through downtown 4 times....

/sad face

My work computer shuts off now, when I am not at my desk for some extended time period. The shortest time I have been gone and come back to discover it off is just over an hour. Yet the power settings claim it is never to shut down of its own free will, no matter how long I leave it alone. I can hardly wait 'til it starts shutting itself off ( Read more... )

A great big THANK YOU to Lilabeth & Jme for dinner tonight; it was delicious. I do enjoy Solera...

I just made a fairly quick, semi-nutritious, and tasty soup for dinner which involved chicken, noodles, coconut milk, lime, garlic/onion, and asian fish sauce. I love it when I stumble across a decent recipe on the internet kind of at random.

On the down side, my hands now smell like lime, garlic, and fish sauce. All at once.

Last night saw my first attempt at making veggie stock using this handy website's suggestions, coupled with some comments from the CSA message board. (These sources caused me to add some strange ingredients--like celery leaves from when I cleaned and froze several partial heads of celery, rather than throwing the leaves out like I normally do.) ( Read more... )

Last night, we tried our hand at making eggplant parmesan (except baked, not fried). It turned out pretty well and it's not nearly as difficult as I would have expected ( Read more... )

For my dad's birthday party last night, I brought some fruit salad with me. A super-ripe mango from the CSA fruit share which practically disintegrated when I tried to peel it, a softball-sized peach, a branch of red grapes, the last handful of last time's cherries (which are more work to cut up and pit than I'd care to do again), a handful of ( Read more... )