I had a great day yesterday ( Read more... )

It's funny, the more I work on recipes for F&A, the more I rediscover resources I've had in this house, sometimes for years.   Today I am prepping dried black beans and garbanzos to incorporate in a revised version of the bean and cheese pie I posted about a while ago.  In researching how to use the dried forms, I pulled down two cookbooks I tend ( Read more... )

When I came home Thursday, these were on my kitchen table:

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Em and I shopped for college stuff and udda thingsa today.  End result: two sets of stretchy tee-shirt-type sheets for her in Twin XL, including pillowcases.  One mattress pad for her.  One memory-foam one for me, because I've had horrible issues with the bursitis in my left hip and the arthritis in both my knees.  A sweet, reversible comforter for ( Read more... )

Em and Kaits (my friend Kathy's daughter and also Em's very good friend) went shopping today.  Em and I dropped Kaits off at the high school at 7:45ish, then my daughter and I hit Wal-Mart (swim top and bottom, standing fan), then Wegmans (every kind of personal care product she needs).  Emily's ability to decipher cost per unit tags is impaired by ( Read more... )