Archive for the ‘ Cooked it ’ Category

Stalling with pickles

I’m supposed to be finishing a dress. Instead I made pickles, the Middle Eastern kind I used to eat with chicken shawarma and garlic sauce. You pickle turnips with beet slices, garlic slices and salt-vinegar brine. Super easy since you don’t cook the turnips or beets. Just peel and slice. Layer. Fill with brine. Watch [ READ MORE ]

Delicious presents might be the best ones

Pasta machine with raviolini attachment, with love, Mister’s sister. Box of locally mixed spices, with love, Mister’s sister’s grillmaster boyfriend. Fabulous homemade dinner date for them, with love from us and our jammed spice cabinet[ READ MORE ]

Ginger it up

I’ve been covering a pretty complicated trial, and a week in, my boss got laid off. The voice of my newspaper, a man who hired me twice is now gone. I already feel like somebody died, and then the temps dropped tonight into the 30s. There’s talk of snow. So tonight, instead of futzing outside [ READ MORE ]

Jars, or A Tale of Hoarding

Maybe it’s the cold. Maybe it’s the engagement, a preparation to marry. Maybe it’s my Mister is far away. Or the uncertain economy. I’m crazy lately about glass jars, jarring things, putting things up in jars, drinking from jars, storing all kinds of grains and beans and veg and soup in jars. I thrift them, [ READ MORE ]

Oy, up on the blogs now

Writing about facts all the time for money made me hesitate to write for free in my spare time about my inner workings. Then 2002 called and told me to go home already; I was beginning to stink. Writing all the time for money using my real name and accurate facts and news judgment and [ READ MORE ]

Word on Georgie-girl

Sleeping standing up. Nose pokes out.

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