Kitchen Improvisation

It’s not that I can’t follow a recipe.  I mean, I’m a literate girl, right?  I just kind of never feel like it.  So I make stuff up.
Today, I started with this recipe for Tortilla de Patata.  I knew I’d be making it sans cheese…  But wow, doesn’t six potatoes and eight eggs sound like [...]

Days to Come

At one point Wednesday night, lying in bed, I had a sudden realization:  My throat felt fine.  Upon further examination, I realized I was breathing.  With my mouth closed.  Through both nostrils.  A week earlier, almost to the minute, I was taking my New Year’s Eve shot (of Nyquil) and heading off to bed at [...]

Lovely Thing #3

A fifteen-year-old guy spends $298 (2x my present weekly budget!) on one meal because he loves food so much.  And he writes oh-so-endearingly about it.  (Via Said the Gramophone).
I squandered my summer earnings in high school on… ?  I have no idea.  And now I’m 27 and still kind of intimidated by the idea of [...]

Lovely Thing #2

Blind Pilot.  Introduced by Melissa.  Bought it last night.  This morning reminded by this guy, whose blog I read.  And then I figured out our Melissas are one and the same.  Tiny, tiny world.

Lovely Thing #1

I had no idea… I hadn’t really considered it. (Via Poppytalk)

Least Favorite Colds, Favorite Words

I won’t try to argue that there are good colds, but this, my friends, is a bad cold.  This cold would only ever get coal for Christmas it is so bad.  You would have to be carded to buy it (not that you would), and maybe even fingerprinted or retina-scanned, it is that bad.  It [...]

Less is More

It seems like everyone is trying to cut back a little bit.  Some of us are struggling right along with the economy — good jobs are hard to find, and even the jobs we have seem less secure.  It seems like the price of everything (except gasoline, for once) is higher than ever.  For me, [...]