Loving Lucy and I
Making jam tarts from the renegade grapes
Trashy novels from an awesome lady
Winter growing from Little House in the Suburbs
One Pretty Thing’s daily lovelies
Kansas City Restaurant Events
My parents are visiting this week to help us clean the basement/reorganize. We really simplified our living space upstairs. That said, everything else went to [...]

A friend emailed me an article from the New York Times on the perfect chocolate chip cookies. Yum. How many times have I made chocolate chip cookies, usually good (I mean, chocolate chip, right?), but occasionally really, really amazing? And I had no idea why…until now. Chocolate chip cookies, [...]

About trash vortices
Rubbish Vortex on fig.
Gooseflesh blog
article on Time Out

I’m catching up on my blog reads, taking a break from painting the house. My Little Mochi posted her Two for Thursday (I am late–she posted these in January)–
She and Him–I love Zooey Deschanel (and her sis, Emily, on Bones). She sang in the movie “Elf,” and wow–the girl’s got pipes! Album [...]

Marnie at Girl Number Twenty tagged me for seven things–oh, to be limited to seven… I have more than enough fingers to count this out, so it should be easy:
1. I can imitate a number of singing styles and voices, including Butters (from South Park), Louis Armstrong and Ethel Merman (not all are [...]

Chocolate Bread dough, expanding at the speed of glacial retreat.
Wait, I think that analogy is sadly, official irrelevant!
Normally, I love T Susan Chang. Her food exploration inspires me to no end, and I love her anecdotal way of telling food stories. I feel like yes, I just passed you on my way to [...]

Someone who pledged to live Plastic Free for 2007!
Working on my Mondo Beyondo list
How to open a coconut (caution, old ones smell like industrial clean fluid! toss it)
Excited that Persepolis open out here on February 1st!