The pneumonia's still keeping me down, and I'm still on bedrest, and I can barely spare an hour for reading before I get overtired.

But!

In last night's hour, I bought a tortilla press on Amazon.com. Now I just have to use Amazon Fresh to get some masa harina, and I should be able to make my first ever homemade tortillas. (I know. That doesn't ( Read more... )

Well, this weekend (starting Friday) our Internet went down. I'd love to blame Verizon, but really...the Internet closet (the closet in our house which holds a case-less computer and all of its 10-yo friends) stopped working properly ( Read more... )

Since I got married, I've been cooking a lot.

Part of this is financial. (Aren't we supposed to have more disposable income after marrying?) Part of it is having awesome new cookware. (Prior to this, however, I didn't care about cookware. So maybe not ( Read more... )

Pancakes!

I just made them. For the first time ever.

The first one was massive, but tasted pancake-like. Then the next one burned. And then I added vanilla. And then chocolate chips. (The chippy ones were all mine because xyon doesn't believe in chocolate chip pancakes ( Read more... )

Wow. There's been a lot of stuff going on since the last time I made a post, but let's talk about my time in California. Because, really, doesn't most of life happen in Cali?

( The wedding on Feb. 6 )

So, I reallyreallyreally need to go food shopping. No, really. I have soda that I don't drink (for guests), scone mix (which requires mixy things), and olive oil ( Read more... )

I just made a massive take-out order from a local restaurant. No, I don't have people over, I just wanted lots of choices. There will be leftover for days, most likely ( Read more... )

Every time I tell myself I can handle it, I'm horribly wrong. In short:

I am not allowed to buy ice-cream. And, if on the off-chance I forget this, I'm certainly not allowed to buy ice-cream in larger units than 1 pint. This, sadly, means that Starbucks ice-cream is completely off-limits ( Read more... )

Happy New Year ( Read more... )

Mmmm. I should be packing, but am too deep into food coma to manage standing up.

Met perfcangel and vicious_kitty for lunch at Primes American Kitchen which just opened on 1st St. I totally need to become a regular, even though I can't afford it ( Read more... )