Today is Tuesday, aka day one of my Weekend, so in addition to running a few errands (post office, now-weekly trip to the library, and not one but TWO grocery stores), I decided to bake a cake I'd had my eye on for over a week.

The recipe is from the Smitten Kitchen website, for Blood orange olive oil cake. While this might sound kind of ( Read more... )

Today Catherine (ambiguously ONE of my two roommates) and I went to a local Asian grocery store, United Noodles. I had heard of it before but had never actually been inside. I don't know if you know this about me, but I LOVE grocery stores. Even if I have no idea what the labels say, I love the variety and just getting a sense of how they're ( Read more... )

Yay! Another food post ( Read more... )

I've been really inconsistent about making this at all a food blog, partially because it isn't one, BUT as you know, I will post something about cooking on rare occasion.

Tonight's creation was a Greek Lemon and Orzo Soup, for which I'd found a recipe ages and ages ago and never got around to trying ( Read more... )

It seems like today is the day to finally get those 2010 posts finished.

I was going to do that meme that's been going around, but then I realized I don't have good answers to all of those questions, so instead I'm just going to ramble about the year and see what happens. This may or may not end up slightly resembling Caile's Christmas ( Read more... )

Since it's the middle of winter, the ground is covered in at least a foot and a half of snow, and the temperature's at a balmy 8 degrees out right now, my roommate and I thought it would be a good time to start planning out the herb garden we hope to plant this year ( Read more... )

I know there are a FEW bibliophiles who read this, so here's my 2010 book list. The complete version will be under the cut, but some highlights first.

Total books read: 61

Most-read authors in 2010: Megan Whalen Turner (4), Margaret Atwood (3), Barbara Kingsolver (3), Stieg Larsson (3), Laurell K. Hamilton (3)

Longest book read: The Girl Who ( Read more... )

I love it when I find good recipes that are simple, cheap, AND tasty. Today's was from my roommate's Arabesque cookbook, and it's lentils with pasta, caramelized onions, and parsley. SUPER easy. And all you need is 1/2 cup of lentils (I used brown ones), 4 oz. of tagliatelle (I used spaghetti instead), a large onion, a large handful of parsley, ( Read more... )

This is a bit of a cat lady post. Pictures of cats and knitting ( Read more... )

Today’s cooking endeavor was Cottage Cheese & Apple Pancakes, another recipe lifted from my roommate’s The New Moosewood Cookbook. When I was making them, they didn’t taste THAT amazing, and I was considering adding more apple next time, but then I put some plain yogurt on top, and the flavor was enhanced like WHOA. I cooked about half the batch ( Read more... )