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Blueberry Pie, Anyone??

I made this pie on Monday night (around 10 pm!) after we thought we’d recovered enough from our shared illnesses. Quick question: why would anyone who loved you not tell you their house was full of a summer plague? If I were that sick, I would guide possible guests towards the Holiday Inn [...]

Happy Solstice!

Happy Solstice! Aren’t those Simpson-esque clouds just ridiculous? I hope you’re having a lovely day…I realize that the moment of “stillness” actually happened last night, but it is just as fun to celebrate during the day, smelling all the green, the onion-bite, cows and moisture from all the recent rain,

CSA Week 2

Oh dear–we’ve been moved to Saturday pickup instead of Tuesday, so our Week 3 items already came in, hence, an early post on Week 2:
I love how the CSA allows us to try things we normally wouldn’t, like the 9-grain bread from Rayville Baking Company.
The strawberries, we sprinkled with sugar (macerated), and after they sat [...]

Naturally Delicious!

Can I just complain really quick and say, Flickr, you sometimes suck. I am working on my flickr account–trying to make it more manageable for people who visit (over 10,000 photos, oye…the power of the uploader). At any rate, I mass-changed the privacy on my photos, which changed the URLs for image source, [...]

Wisebread

I’ve am addicted to reading Wisebread.  A few articles that caught my eye:
How to buy stuff that lasts forever
10 ways to be nicer to the environment and your wallet
 What if foreigers quit lending the U.S. money?

So many events, so little time

Oh. I emailed someone about another meeting, and then lamented that I missed the registration for the SARE conference next week. The response was “Too many conferences, too many earth fairs, too much!” Damned rising interest in sustainability! (I’m kidding, of course~)
I feel their pain. I feel their pain because the [...]