On the afternoon of Saturday, August 16, starting at 2:00 p.m., zingerella will be at home to looters, pillagers, and other brigands wishing to increase their hoards of women's clothing (mostly sizes 6-12), books, and sundry household furnishings:

( Available sundries )

corbet was in town last Friday, and since she never gets to do New Recipe Sunday, we had an impromptu New Recipe Night in her honour.

sabotabby did the full write up with photos, and since I've been STOOPID BUSY, I'm linking you to that rather than repeating. That said, I owe the internets a recipe, so here it is:

( Vegan Double-Trouble Chocolate Cookies )

Aoife has come to visit for a few days, while her monkey is away on business, and is Not Best Pleased about having been bundled into her carrier, taken on a long journey, and brought to a room with Other Cats on the other side of the door ( Read more... )

The Mother's Day edition of New Recipe Sundae was, of necessity, pretty small, but, as usual, lots of fun.

Who Cooked What
Yours truly: Coconut red-lentil curry with extra spinach and almonds
captainmushroom: Couscous with apricots and pine-nuts
curgoth: Something with tofu and veggies and orange
tormenta: Broccoli with vegan cheese sauce, sunchoke pancakes
mycrazyhair: Sundae bar, which ( Read more... )

I really should make that my mantra.

When we interviewed with Mad Mary for this apartment, she stressed that she wanted nice people who were going to stay here a while. We're nice. Some of us might arguably be described as wholesome.*

So now she's told sabotabby that she's selling the place. Or, if she doesn't sell the place, she wants to renovate the ( Read more... )

Every time we do one of these (except for the sweet-potato pie), I think "That's it. We can't possibly top that." And yet, those who come with their culinary experiments keep rising to the challenge.

The after-the-fact theme for this Sunday turned out to have been chickpeas and smoked chillis, with a side of kale. sabotabby has, as usual, beat me to ( Read more... )

Every time we do one of these (except for the sweet-potato pie), I think "That's it. We can't possibly top that." And yet, those who come with their culinary experiments keep rising to the challenge.

The after-the-fact theme for this Sunday turned out to have been chickpeas and smoked chillis, with a side of kale. sabotabby has, as usual, beat me to ( Read more... )

So I have a date on Saturday to build my website. This will be a secondary marketing tool: I don't think anyone will find me in the intarwebs by googling "Editor"; however, my name and contact info are out there in a number of professional contexts, and it would be good to have an online space with a little more information than what's found on my ( Read more... )

We've never had this many people cook in our kitchen at one time before! sabotabby started cooking her lovely breaded eggplant and goat cheese sandwiches with marinara sauce at around 17h00, so when people started arriving, the apartment smelled beautifully of garlic and tomatoes and other good things ( Read more... )

These things just get better and better. Really.

sabotabby has blogged this already, but here's my take, and here are my recipes.

Last week, shopping in Kensington, I espied some purple potatoes, in among the russets and Yukon golds. "Cool!" I thought, "Purple food! I bet I could do something nifty with those." So I bought four ( Read more... )