The was my Thanksgiving. It includes a food log because it helps me plan for future years where I get to feed ~10 people for dinner every night for a week. Also the ones from 2016 and 2015Saturday ( Read more... )

Food log, Jan 2016 ( Read more... )

The holiday week isn't over yet, as family is still in the house, but the food is basically front and center this year, so this is a post about food. Last year's food post helped me plan for this year. Maybe this one will help inspire for next year ( Read more... )

I have too much food ( Read more... )

This weekend I had a rare weekend to myself with no major plans. Aside from various standard house chores, some minor repair projects, some closet cleanout, and some time out of the house, I also engaged in a weekend-long session of my own version of solo Iron Chef: Leftovers. This is where I clean out the fridge and pantry of ingredients that ( Read more... )

Finally, Tuesday. My Thanksgiving week+ is done. 4 loads of laundry later, the house is sooooooo quiet; finally empty but for me for the first time in 11 days. It's lovely ( Read more... )

I found a single ripe raspberry yesterday on the new bush. Delicious ( Read more... )

Some years ago, when I started doing a lot of bean soups, I decided to build up a collection of dried beans, so I could just always have a variety of stuff on hand. I collected pretty much everything I could find, including a lot that I'd never heard of before looking - like canary, adzuki, roman, and pigeon peas - among another dozen of the more ( Read more... )

xuth and I threw our second pizza ("pi") party yesterday on pi day ( Read more... )

What a week. Tuesday we drove all day to return home from Arisia (which I still intend to post about), the rest of the week was prep for the weekend (while still keeping to usual social/active things), and the weekend was more party prep and parties. Today is the first day of real downtime in a long time and it's wonderful. I'm also getting a ( Read more... )