The Easiest Scones

June 22, 2010

A broken record, I am: Father’s Day really snuck up on me this year. If you’ve read this blog for any length of time at all, you might well-deduce that I’m not a very good planner when it comes to token relational holidays. While quite gifted at the arts of over-committing, under-estimating, and getting distracted, [...]

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If a green salad is a summer wardrobe,
this dressing is a ribbed cotton tank.

June 18, 2010

I don’t know about you, but as I’ve grown closer to middle-age, my wardrobe has become more and more predictable. I could probably draw a mathematical curve, illustrating the inverse relationship between my age and the number of exciting choices available to me in my closet. This has a little to do with a tight [...]

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What to do with two gallons of tart cherries,
part one: dry them.

June 14, 2010

Imagine my utter delight when I realized that one of my long-time obsessions — tart dried cherries — could be created in my very own home, with free cherries (free if I consider my own time and labor to be such, which I guess it is; and if it’s not, I should start demanding a [...]

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My new kitchen tool crush

June 11, 2010

Remember my recent moratorium on purchasing more gadgets? And how I even considered getting rid of some?
Yeah, well, nevermind.
On Tuesday, I came home with almost four quarts of sour cherries. I had them in a large container, and unfortunately let them sit out on the counter for quite a few hours before deciding they should [...]

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Unpacking, unschmacking.

June 8, 2010

Our house is walled chaos, and I’m not exaggerating.
That being said, we are making tiny, microscopic-organism-steps of progress. Like yesterday, when I unpacked that one box of books.
Every day I have a goal — and ne’er a single day has passed when my goal has been accomplished. For a few days, this bothered me intensely. [...]

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Recycling

June 3, 2010

So, here’s the situation. Our wireless, which we are borrowing from our new home’s previous owners (they were going to be charged a cancellation fee if we switched services before the end of June), has been out since a round of thunderstorms came through Monday night. While we wait for it to be fixed, we [...]

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On unpacking, and editing.

May 31, 2010

As I type, I sit in a house full to the brim with unopened boxes, broken-down boxes, piles of bubble wrap and newsprint, and mounds of books, pictures, and random objects. And if that sentence doesn’t give you a de ja vu, it most certainly does me, since I was writing about an almost identical [...]

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10 reasons to make your own mayo

May 27, 2010

You’ve been looking to tone your arms, and long-admired the upper-body strength of Julia Child.
You’re not really interested in whisking up buff triceps, but need to use the food processor that’s been collecting dust in the nether-regions of that dark cupboard.
You’ve been obsessively saving empty jars, a practice spawned by the teachings of your depression-era [...]

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What do you cook the week of a move?
(penne with smoked salmon cream sauce)

May 25, 2010

Last time we moved was 10 months ago. Our house was on the market in Georgia, and we were preparing for our first cross-state move since having children (for those of you who don’t have children, you can imagine what this is like by getting a mental image of all your stuff, then multiplying it [...]

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Homemade popsicles: Let’s move beyond freezing apple juice.

May 21, 2010

Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It just gets a little old, even for an ice-pop-loving-four-year old (or 38-year old, for that matter).
That age-old bell for ringing in the summer is a mere days away (I refer to Memorial Day weekend — the very weekend we thought was a great time to move — [...]

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