Delightful time out at karaoke last night, quickly followed by this morning, where I had to go to the dentist. Again. Went to get a permanent crown from last month and told them about how bad it's been hurting (4 advil a day bad). So, he put the permanent on and whittled it down until it cleared well, then decided that it was so whittled it needed ( Read more... )

In the farm share this year, we've gotten cabbage. I got a head of cabbage last week and an even larger head of cabbage this week. It has perplexed both stentoriansista and I because neither of us really eat cabbage. So, I checked The Kitchn and decided that I'd make a braise. So, what I did was... sliced two baby onions and one large vidalia into rings at the ( Read more... )

So, I'm a little annoyed. The Washington Post Express chose to quote this entry from Donna Says in their Blog Log today. I'm annoyed for several reasons.

1) This is the first thing I've ever seen them post about CSAs and it's not positive. Way to be discouraging. (Also, way to get the day wrong. If she posts on Wednesday that last night's pick up ( Read more... )

So, last night, stentoriansista and I made a stir fry after the gym. It consisted of chinese cabbage, garlic scapes, pak choi (all from farm share), broccoli, snap peas (both farmers market), onion, chicken, noodles and some seasonings (sadly, all from the grocery store). It was tasty and I was starving, so I quickly dug into it ( Read more... )

Went down for a nap at 8 o'clock last night and ended up snoozing until 10am. At 10am, I was up but stentoriansista was not, so I decided to get up and go to the Dupont Circle farmer's market. Homigod, y'all, I forget how awesome that market it. Got 2 bunches of asparagus, 2 half-pints of gelatto (blood orange & champagne mango, OM NOM NOM), strawberries, a ( Read more... )

So, I had yet another good cooking day today. I woke up this morning and put pumpkin curry soup in the crockpot before grabbing a quick breakfast (um... at 1pm. What?). Sat around for a while before running off to a quick Target run then hit the pool at the gym. Hadn't done that in a while. It was nice! It ended up being closer to an hour than the ( Read more... )

Dinner tonight was a slice of homemade bread (delightfully baked by stentoriansista), half a chickenbreast with jamaican jerk seasoning made in the foreman grill, with raw milk cheddar on top, an apple and a sweet potato. I'm going to have the same for lunch tomorrow. I am a super genius ( Read more... )

One of the weirdest things about being a grown up is discovering that you actually like vegetables. I am currently have torrid love affairs with beets (golden and the kind that turns your fingers purple) and sweet potatoes. Like, I went to get a salad today and seriously considered filling the whole to go container with beets and just eating that ( Read more... )

I made yogurt. In making yogurt, I decided that since I had a bigger crockpot, I should increase the recipe, so last night I poured a gallon of two percent milk into my crockpot. Added 1/4 cup dried milk and a packet of unflavored gelatin after a few hours, wrapped it in a towel, let sit overnight ( Read more... )

This pumpkin cake was really good but would have been so much better if I had trusted the directions and broiled it for 3 minutes instead of five, scorching the top of the cake and all the pecans.

Still really tasty though. And I used fresh pumpkin that I roasted the other week too.