1. When I am at home the cat is glued to me:


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This weekend's cooking and baking:

Fern Cake turned Black Forest cake via additions of whipped cream, kirsch (the good kind), and homemade maraschino cherries, yum.

Bread since S went to the market instead of the grocery store and forgot to buy bread. All is forgiven, though, because he came home with some exquisitely delicious salted caramel ice ( Read more... )

I. The other day, I came into the bedroom where we have a dish with a heat pad set up for Emma to sleep in. She basically lives in it in the wintertime. This time, she had pawed off the blanket that is usually on top of the heat pad, and was curled up directly on the heat pad.

Eventually I discovered a bit of dried cat barf on the blanket, so I ( Read more... )

I spent the better parts of Thursday and Friday working on craft projects and cooking. I'm getting closer to being ready to show you the outcomes of the craft projects, but I didn't try to take any pictures of the cooking bender - just didn't feel like it.

I think that's because I wound up reading yet another internet story about someone who got so ( Read more... )

This week's Cookie of the Week comes from the Ratio cookbook by Michael Ruhlman. It's a really great cookbook, by the way, and makes for some interesting reading for those who are really into food. For the section on cookies, he recommended making the "basic" version of cookie dough at least once before experimenting. I only cheated a tiny bit, ( Read more... )

This one, absolutely, definitely, this one, 100%.

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I should be working right now but I am exhausted and my brain doesn't work.

Raspberry-almond thumbprint cookies are yummy.


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One of the best things about the days in the Farmer House with the Other R was that she knows all sorts of great songs. She would regularly sing Homegrown Tomatoes basically every time she went to make cheesy toast with tomatoes, and so now I think of the song every time I eat tomatoes from the garden.

Anyway, here's what I picked yesterday (in the ( Read more... )

On Saturday, after a blustery rowing practice, I biked up to the Troy Farmer's Market. The week before, my friend R had brought me some apricots, peaches, and blueberries from the market, and that was enough to convince me that I needed to go myself and get a few things.

The trip did not disappoint.

Not only did I get more apricots, peaches, and ( Read more... )

There were locally-grown strawberries for sale at the co-op on Tuesday.


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