Mommy just vacuumed the car, and ain't nobody eating nothing with sesame seeds in there until the clean wears off!

Roast remaining beets and carrots from garden in olive oil and salt (450 degrees, over an hour, peeled and cut small).

Frizz (a lot of choppd) garlic in olive oil, add (6 or 7 frozen) basil (lumps) and one can of drained chickpeas.

Add roasted vegetables to chickpea pan.

Cut in thin ribbons of chard (central stem cut out of each leaf).

Throw in some ( Read more... )

 So, this week has been about getting up and going with the get up and go, and I've done varying well with that. I've put together good to-do lists and banished the scary mystery piles, so that helps. My bills are paid up to date (for today), and that makes me feel okay. I have groceries in the house. That said, I got up this morning, brought the ( Read more... )

Okay, I need to grocery shop, and I'm the anxious sort who buys doubles when staples are on sale (and when I say staples, I'm including Fluff, frozen basil lumps and baker's chocolate). Because of my false-memories-of-a-Depression-childhood-lifestyle, sometimes I squirrel away things to the point that I can't remember when I bought something, and I ( Read more... )

Okay, cindy_lou_who8, here's the mac and cheese "recipe ( Read more... )

Hi, gang. I promise I'll post at some point about myself. For the time being, you may assume that no news is, well, no news ( Read more... )

(Cross-posted from wls ( Read more... )

I'll post for real sometime soon, I promise. Suffice to say, I'm alive and holding it together.

Meanwhile, here's an "NSV"* from this evening: something I'd never been able to do with my kid before:

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= Non-scale victory. The ones that count.

A woman who can do this? Could probably make me a pair of pants that fit well. Out of eyelash yarn.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7947984.stm

( Beet Happening! (with pictures!) )