Introduction: So I am the executor of my grandmother's will. My relationship with her was interesting, in the chinese context of that word (ie: same context as the curse "May you live in interesting times"). I'm going to own the house, and it's a nice one, but we're going to have to deal with a bunch of her stuff that we can't keep ( Read more... )

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I just made a great batch of sauerkraut, with caraway and juniper berries. The actual production aspect of it (shredding the cabbage, adding salt and brine, and letting it sit in a corner for six weeks) was 100% successful. What came out of that process was undeniably good sauerkraut. I canned it today, and that is the process now under question ( Read more... )

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Ostara Dinner was an unmitigated success. I made buttered squash, and this ( Read more... )

( The lord spread his net encompassing her, the tempest, following after, he loosed in her face, Tiamat opened her mouth to devour, he drove in the tempest lest she close her lips,
the fierce winds filled her belly, her insides congested and she opened wide her mouth, he let fly an arrow, it split her belly, cut through her inward parts and gashed the heart, he held her fast, extinguished her life. )

Tim Ward was one of our ace Code-Enforcement officers. For those of you who don't know city bureaucracy, Code Enforcement is a branch of the police department, but instead of stopping or investigating crimes and keeping the peace, their job is to make sure that buildings and land uses comply with zoning code. They do sweeps through neighborhoods ( Read more... )

I also made some pasta puttanesca last night ( Read more... )

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