I am determined to make some marmalade. I got a sudden yen for it last weekend while I was toasting up some English muffins, realizing that we really didn't have much in the way of jellies or jams to spread on toasted baked goods. I actually did make do with a bit of Honey Citron "tea" mix as it is very marmalade-esque, and it was pretty nice, but ( Read more... )

I've been blending my own curry/garam masala blends for a few years now, mostly just cause I can - with unrestricted access to numerous powdered herbs and spices at my previous 2 jobs, it was really easy to cobble together a good blend for close to free. However, I no longer have that access, and while I probably have enough leftover stuff to make ( Read more... )

Have I mentioned that Chuck has been doing a fabulous job of stepping up to meal prep since we moved? He has ( Read more... )

I don't remember when exactly I created this taste sensation, but sometime in our last weeks in Green Bay, I made something delicious that I can't find a record of here ( Read more... )

  Lately I’m just yearning for some time to work on projects. In the last 6 months I haven’t been able to work on much that hasn’t been a virtual necessity (like making a curtain for the back door of the house, or hemming some of Chuck’s pants, etc.). I’ve made a few culinary forays - tried making focaccia with a dash of malted barley flour (mostly ( Read more... )

I actually knocked together a recipe that made collard greens reasonably edible! I thought I would jot it down before I forgot it, since many of the curries I make are very similar, and it's darn near miraculous that this particular one made collards decently tasty ( Read more... )

I'm pretty well embroiled in some bread rage right now. I made 3 utterly failed loaves of Italian bread last week, and made 2 reasonably passable loaves afterwards that were still too dense for my tastes. The fail loaves refused to come off the pan (understandable, since they had spread far beyond the bed of cornmeal I had prepared for them) with ( Read more... )

I went ahead and booked my travel for next week despite a number of somewhat vague and confusing messages. I'm flying in Tuesday, and as I was flying into New Hampshire, I thought I would see how far that actually was from the town where my grandmother lives.

It's only an hour away!

So I'm visiting Grandma and my aunt on Tuesday now - I basically ( Read more... )

I never updated about my watermelon pickle experiment!
( Here are the results. )

I received my credit card bill today and saw that Progressive refunded the "installation fee" AKA punitive measure to prevent lapsed policies. Yay ( Read more... )