Over the last two weeks Birdie has started helping me cook. Of course, as a three-year-old her ability to help is far exceeded by her ability to accidentally cause chaos, but I've found a few things that she can do ( Read more... )

More than a year ago, we bought a worm farm for our composting needs. How's that going?

PROS- The worms have eaten the food scraps they were fed with no problems ( Read more... )

For many years I have had the same recurring thought whenever I'm building my grocery list, so I've decided to dump it here in the hopes of excising it from my brain, or at least entertaining you.

The thought in question has to do with the movie Groundhog Day. If I woke up every day in the same house with the same exact pantry, how many days in a ( Read more... )

Last year we signed up for a share from a Community Supported Fishery or CSF. That continues to go very well, so we decided to try out a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) this summer. This has been on my list of "I should do that one day," and one day has finally arrived.

After due consideration of the available options we went with City Fresh ( Read more... )

Given that:
[A] I do a lot of cooking[B] A substantial percentage of our trash every week is peelings and cores and seeds and other bits from fruits and vegetables ( Read more... )

I do a lot of writing about cooking and recipes. Although I certainly mention cookbooks throughout the You Are What You Eat series of posts, I thought it might be worthwhile to provide the full list of cookbooks that I currently use all in one place ( Read more... )

I get off work somewhere between 5 and 5:30 most weeknights, and I typically take over primary Birdie care so M can have a few hours of break before she runs the bedtime operation between 7 and 8. We then eat dinner when Birdie is down for the night ( Read more... )

Facebook is free because the users are the product. Those users are "sold" to advertisers. Most of the time I'm able to ignore the ads, other than sometimes being confused about why on earth I was shown the ad in question. However, a few months ago I was actually saw an ad that made me buy something. I'm not sure Facebook should be excited by one ( Read more... )

As a whole, my immediate family is not big on giving gifts. We pretty consistently do gifts for birthdays and Hanukkah, and those are rarely very costly. My wish lists, largely prepared as gift suggestions for my family, now trend very heavily toward art (books, music) or things I have an actual need to use. This is further driven by all of us ( Read more... )

Unlike my mother, I've never been a big user of the microwave. M has probably used it more in the last fourteen months than I did in the fourteen years since I moved in. When I bought the current microwave, I got a really basic one because I knew I wasn't going to use any of the more complicated features. It's so basic it doesn't even have a timer ( Read more... )