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Category: crafts
Preface Before we start, I should point out: I am not a doctor. I have no medical training. I only have a couple years’ worth of herbal studies, so I consider myself a student of herbalism more than a practitioner. Nothing in this post should be read as medical advice…
I want to tell you about my take on the New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day recipe. The things I have to add to the discussion: 1) a couple of hacks for people who, like me, do not have a kitchen fan that vents outdoors (I promise I’ll explain why this matters) and who like at least a little bit of whole grain in their bread, plus 2) photos of some of the steps they don’t show as clearly in the book. I’m still experimenting (always!), but I have a base recipe/approach that I like and that I think is good enough to share.
We’re rapidly approaching the time for the traditional year-end post, which I’ve been known to skip in recent years—I had a run of several really rough years, there. While 2019 wasn’t without personal challenges and setbacks (and a whole lot of frightening developments in the US and abroad), it brought…
I usually do a year-end post. That’s not happening in 2017. This year took so much from me, and from people I care about, that I refuse to write about it. But I’d like to write about 2018. Not “resolutions” so much as “plans and goals”—and maybe not even those…
I recently realized that I hadn’t written a post about crafts in quite some time. I never shared the glow-in-the-dark cross stitch I designed and made for my brother-in-law, which, even if I didn’t make anything else, would still be worth a post. And that was over a year ago.…
My house smells amazing right now, because I am making my great-grandmother’s Russian spice tea, to bring to my friends’ Thanksgiving dinner. It’s a delightful winter party drink, and it’s also good to make if you have a household full of people fighting a cold. And, speaking of cold and…
This is delicious by itself, with rice, as a taco or quesadilla filling, or, if you want to combine it with some scrambled eggs and a little cheese, in a breakfast burrito. Sour cream goes nicely with it, especially if you get it too spicy. ;) Although it’s very good…
I have to admit: I’m a sucker for one-pot/one-skillet recipes, especially if they’re tasty and at least moderately healthy. (I am more of a sucker for these things right now, since my kitchen only has a single saucepan and two iron skillets. Moving from Alaska → Virginia → Pennsylvania is…
OK, OK, fine, I’ll get Evernote. And I’ll probably like it, and it will probably make my life better and all that jazz. (If you click the image, it will take you to an article about how Moleskine and Evernote are working together to make, effectively, a smart notebook. This…