Last week certainly ended interestingly.  Going to the door after talking to a survey guy, Andy heard a mewing.  When he opened the door a small black and white streak of lightning shot up our hall.  When he called to me to check it out, his voice half laughing, half questioning, I wondered what in the world it could be.  I did not expect, a few ( Read more... )

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Yet again, cutting it fine on actually posting, despite making this month’s challenge in plenty of time!

The August 2010 Daring Cooks’ Challenge was hosted by LizG of Bits n’ Bites and Anula of Anula’s Kitchen. They chose to challenge Daring Cooks to make pierogi from scratch and an optional challenge to provide one filling that best represents ( Read more... )

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Outside of the Daring Kitchen challenges, I’ve not done anything much ‘new’ to me. I’ve done plenty of cooking -  Andy’s parents, sister and her partner as well as his cousin have been over here for dinner in relatively quick succession - but when relatives come by, I like to try to cook something I’ve done before so that I know it’s not going to ( Read more... )

I have fickle muses - when I do a lot of art my writing falls by the wayside and vice versa.  Thus, because of a recent spate of artyness, my blog has been somewhat neglected.  Typically, this has happened right at the time we’ve actually had quite a bit going on ;)  Given the picture-spam which would happen if I threw everything off my camera into ( Read more... )

I had this month’s daring challenge prepared way early in the month, but I’m playing catch-up with the post.  My blogging has been sporadic lately, but at least the Daring Kitchen gives me some deadlines I have to meet and thus keeps things turning over.  I’ll hopefully  get working on the backlog of photos, cat news, food and garden stuff I haven’ ( Read more... )

I dropped the ball on this month’s challenge, a little - though I’ll manage to scootch my post in just on time ;)! I’ve wanted to try nut butters for a time - specifically cashew butter, used as a substitute for peanut butter, since Andy is allergic.  One thing he’d never tried, therefore, was chicken satay.  Given that this month’s challenge was ( Read more... )