This is something I need to try and remember to do. Not because I buy pricey clothes (I am a Thrift Store denizen and proud of it!) but because I do spend money I don't need to and then end up wondering where my cash has gone at the end of every month.

Part of this is the unavoidable side-effect of two adults with a first- and second-mortgage ( Read more... )

Adventures in camp cooking are always fun, and sometimes pretty tasty to boot! This past weekend at the North Fork Siege was no exception; bacon/fried bread/Irish cheddar breakfast sandwiches with fresh fruit for breakfasts, bear sausage and root vegetable broth on Friday night, spit roasted mustard and honey coated pork loin and beef with shallots ( Read more... )

Homemade eggnog it the bomb…

It is also da DEB-VIL!

That is all.

Guinness Ice Cream (check)

Broccoli/Ricotta Quiche (check)

Chicken Pot Pie (check) - did this one on the fly...

Homemade Jerky (check)

Dried Fruit - peaches, nectarines, plums & pluots (check)

Can’t wait to get home for dinner! *grin*

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http://keirasoleore.blogspot.com/

*chuckle*

Per the information included above, there is going to be 'hands on tasting' at the workshop. The good news is, this is a 'pre-RWA Guild Meeting' workshop (*perhas a smaller crowd, perhaps not). The bad new is, I have not idea how many items I should bring....

*snort*

I am already planning on bringing some ( Read more... )

I am going to start webbing some site I have found with good content. These will all be food related and will end up in the workshop bibliography if I use any of their content in the final class. I am going to keep adding to this same entry (to keep it all in one place for my ease of access), so keep checking back if you are interested.

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My friend T has asked that I host a 45 minute workshop for her at the Romance Writers of America, Annual Guild meeting in SF on July 30th. Now T is a brilliant garb researcher with a far greater grasp of the periods in question (medieval and renaissance) than I have. She’d been hosting ‘corsets and underwear’ workshops for RWA events for years now ( Read more... )

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00677/beer-crash_677789n.jpg

Firefighters clear a roadway near Munich following a crash.

Oh...the humanity!

I'd be interested in hearing from folks on what these images make you think...

( ..Big Pictures That Make Your Computer 'Think' Too... )