I just made my own crackers from this recipe, and they've turned out really well -- substantial, yet crunchy. I used one cup plain whole wheat, one cup white whole wheat, and one cup all-purpose white flour.

This has been an excellent couple of days.

Last night, sovay, ajodasso, and G. and I all had dinner together and then watched Warlock on the projector in the living room. It remains as silly and lovable as it was last time I checked it out. (I remember being unconvinced that it would be fun, and then kestrell said, "Richard E. Grant, in fur, with a whip," and I went ( Read more... )

I improvised this soup/stew/thingy the other day, pretty much because I needed to prune my potted lemon thyme and didn't want to waste the herb leaves, and it was delicious.  Best when accompanied with homemade bread and a slice of cheese.  Question for more experienced cooks and foodies: is there a name and genre for this kind of dish?  It amounts ( Read more... )

My housemate and her boyfriend and I all cooked tonight and had supper together.  It was very good fun; I hope we have a chance to do it again before the semester is over.  Back in January, she and I never used to hang out, but he's put her in the habit of spending more time here.  Mostly cooking.  She dotes on him and cooks him huge meals.  It's a ( Read more... )

Took a trip to Portsmouth, NH, with my parents this weekend for a music festival.  We stayed at the Inn at Strawbery Banke, which I can highly recommend.  Not that I was in Portsmouth primarily for the food, but the innkeeper served us some pancakes this morning before we left that I liked so much I copied down her directions.  (Mem., get recipe ( Read more... )

It's the night before classes, and all through the house, Teeny tensely made toast and left crumbs for the mouse.  I'm way more of a laid-back frood this fall than I was last semester, so I'm not too nervous, but I still feel the need of a little silly distraction.  Hmm.

How have I not linked to this before?  Or perhaps I did, and my memory is ( Read more... )

Inspired by nineweaving 's summer pudding of some weeks ago, I finally mustered up my courage and made one of my own. It's delicious. I used black raspberries, red raspberries, strawberries, and some odd yellow plums which I peeled in hot water first.

Here are the results.  Eight photos under the cut.( Deliciousness. )

Yesterday evening, I felt a trifle under the weather, so I wrote off doing anything productive and laid around watching monster movies.  I don't do enough movie/play/book/pop culture posts anymore, so I'm going to try to do at least one a week from now on.  There keep being all these fascinating posts that I mean to make, and then time moves on.  ( Read more... )

Otherwise known as Soup for the Ill, but that's not nearly as appealing.  I just invented this yesterday and it's really good ( Read more... )