So I'm leaning more and more towards a pixie, and so apparently are you guys, as so far the comments are 3 for 3 pro-pixie. I found this blog documenting one woman's year of growing out a pixie, and towards the beginning she says "I would highly, highly, highly recommend getting this haircut if even just a little teensy part of you has wanted to ( Read more... )

What is the proper way to thank someone when you've returned their gift ( Read more... )

Today I tried a crockpot experiment, using what I had in the house in pursuit of something vaguely South Asian. I used about 2 lbs of bone-in chicken thighs (I took the skin off), put that into my crockpot (it's exactly the right amount of chicken for my cooker to form one layer on the bottom). Then I mixed one thinly sliced giant spring onion, ( Read more... )

On Friday, The Husband brought me home an enormous 4 kilo (~9 lb) whole boneless pork loin.

(As mentalguy pointed out, there's something very primal about this. LOOK HONEY I HAVE BROUGHT YOU MEAT. I HOPE THE BERRY GATHERING WENT WELL TODAY ( Read more... )