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Meyer lemon marmalade
One small problem - these lemons are unlike other Meyer lemons in that, while the zest and juice are headily fragrant, the juice is neither really sweet nor low-acid, nor is the pith very thin. We wanted to make a whole-lemon marmalade, and found a lovely simple recipe online (from the SF Chronicle, no less!), but decided that it might be the ( Read more... ) -
to the owner of the orange VW Bug with CA license plate "CNCNTRT"
It was raining, and I was tired, and that must be at least part of the reason it took me so long to figure out your vanity plate. You're probably smugly satisfied with the fact that, indeed, your license plate forces innocent passers-by to CONCENTRATE in order to get the joke ( Read more... ) -
favorite inaugural typo
From the NYT, 20 January 2009, "A Mission to Serve Lunch in the Capitol," by Marian Burros.
"It was 4 a.m. and bone-chilling cold when the van from Design Cuisine commenced its high-security expedition into the capital from Virginia. Their mission was lunch for 234 guests, including the newly sworn in President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph ( Read more... ) -
Quinoa pudding
So my mom and I were talking rice pudding the other day, and I developed a yen for it. But when I got home, I realized that what we had tons of that needing eating was not rice, but quinoa. So I improvised a pudding using a basic rice pudding recipe, and was very happy with the results. It's rich and creamy with a subtle nutty flavor, a lovely ( Read more... ) -
In requiem of a mouselet
We found a mouse on the sidewalk yesterday. Dazed-looking, cold, very tiny. Still alive, though. So I picked her up and cuddled her next to my tummy as we walked home, and fitted up a tank with a water dish, and a dish of wheatberries and peanuts, and a shredded-cloth nest.
We figured mice don't exist outside of a live-dead binary state for long ( Read more... ) -
I have a nephew!
His name is Jacob, and he's adorable, and he was born early in the wee hours of Sunday the 14th. Everyone is doing well.
We're planning on going to see him early in January. Yay wee wrinkled squashed-tomato kidlets! -
Happy Butterfest!
Yesterday, we cooked and served:- 1 herb-roasted chicken
- 1 braised chicken, done coq au vin style with white wine and mushrooms
- 2 pans stuffing
- 2 pans humitas (a Bolivian corn-and-cheese baked thing)
- 1.5 pint gravy
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Squash soup
Fall brings a lot of squash. We like squash, in all sorts of ways. But one of our favorites is in:
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bee ball
We have had over half a dozen honeybees buzzing through our house today. We're trying to shoo them out gently, since with the state of honeybees these days it seems especially stupid and wasteful to kill any. But they keep coming in and heading straight for the kitchen.
At first we were wondering, "Is the garbage nasty? Do we have something in ( Read more... ) -
thanks, dude
An Anna's Hummingbird (Calypte anna) just flew through the open porch door into the office, chirped, pooped, and flew out again.
Better than the dog, I suppose.