Chop up a bag full of slightly blemished, fully ripe and nom backyard tomatoes I bought for $1/lb at the farmer's market, plus the volunteer pear tomatoes someone brought to the office ( Read more... )

OK, I was going on an internet hiatus (and still will), but I’ve got to talk about this.

Shweta Narayan talks here about allergy awareness.

So, I have been lucky enough in my life to be, in general, very healthy physically (smashy things aside). I am, however, very allergic to cats. We discovered this when, at the age of seven, I got the cat I ( Read more... )

...we were wishing everyone a "Bleesed New Year" for a minute or so there. Took me some staring at it to figure out what was wrong.

Went to see Black Swan, wherein I learned that to be creative and female I had to be 1) insane 2) a controlling mother 3) washed up and suicidal. And it was so over the top that in the middle my girlfriends and I just gave up and were laughing hysterically, which helped with the being pissed off. I can only pray that The King's Speech will wash the ( Read more... )

Best I can say is we survived it.  Go us.

EDIT:  OK, let's make this more interesting.

Question:

In what stupid way did Sam manage to break her toe this weekend?

Prize for the first correct answer (HINT - consider the season):

Bacon jam (thought better of it) 
A copy of Realms 2
An early-20th century "Tufts" cigarette card portraying Jane Austen
An orphaned earring
We have a winner!

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I am making bacon jam. I'll tell you how that works out.

UPDATE: It's kind of like German potato salad without the potato. Not done yet, tho.

Today fruit guy brought me:

raspberries
blackberries
Persian cucumbers
zucchini
yellow peaches

Yay fruit guy!

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