I'm pleasantly tired.

Good Auntie & Uncle left a couple of hours ago. We spent most of the day walking about at local parks (including Schaar's Bluff, of course) and making/eating food! We all painted & dyed eggs before they left, too. As always, don't bother giving me an apron, it still gets all over me. I'm like a little kid, and oblivious to the ( Read more... )

 Ooooh. I rescued "The Encyclopedia of Creative Cooking," edited by Charlotte Turgeon, from the garbage yesterday. I like rescuing perfectly good books. Especially cookbooks. Who knows what gem might be getting forced into a dusty memory ( Read more... )

I love to make it MINE. I'm single and this day has been fantastic! I hit South St. Paul up for some breakfast (Black Sheep for mushroom & brie soup, chicken curry salad and a café miel) after doing some brief shopping for picnic baskets; I found two for super-cheap, hooray! 
  I motored around for a while for the heck of it, before heading over ( Read more... )

See previous post.
 See me experience all manner of back woes & not have any OTC drugs that can kill the pain.
 See me try to figure out how to stand, bend, sit, lie down, and then get back up-- and you'll laugh really hard.
 See me work three shifts that require extensive use of the back.
 See me cry.

Owwwwwww. Frick, I still seriously hurt. Dammit. ( Read more... )

 I don't care if I end up wasting fuel to use the oven or appear to be totally, totally cheating (which technically I'm not, since no one's going to be around for Thanksgiving anyway), but I've decided that I need to make pumpkin pie NOW. Well, after I call my uncle to wish him Happy Birthday.

If I had gumption and perhaps another oven, I'd be  ( Read more... )

I am on a singular mission to figure out how to cook/bake  things in my toaster/convection oven. Some recipes-- well, hmmm. It just may not be possible. Dammit.

Today's Experimental Cooking is based on a basic recipe for baked chicken & rice. It has been modified, of course, because seldom am I content (or using my schmartz) to leave original ( Read more... )