Spring!
And now, due the miracle of a temporary warming spell, I present, Crocus! Now, I just have to remember that they’re pretty much the only thing that can survive out there for the moment…
Food 2.0 Secrets from the Chef Who Fed Google – Charlie Ayers
I got my first earlier reviewer book from LibraryThing. I feel so special! I don’t normally count cookbooks as real reading material, because they’re generally more flip through and skim the recipe title type books, but at least the first half of Food 2.0 dealt more with the philosophy of why the author cooks the
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The Thirteenth Tale – Diane Setterfield
Read for the TBR Reading Challenge I do enjoy a good book where I’m completely surprised when the mystery is resolved at the end of the story. The build up of this story was great. Margaret Lea, a book store employee who has published a couple of biographical essays, but is certainly not known for
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Once Upon a Time II Reading Challenge
I can’t resist a fantasy/fairy tale/folklore reading challenge. Those subjects are such a large percentage of my TBR pile I’m happy any time I find a way to structure in reading more of them. I’m going to do the first quest, and read at least five books in the challenge subjects. I’ve come up with
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Knitting Notes
The baby Yoda sweater is coming along. I’ve got the back and sides done, and sleeve #1 is cast on. It’s been an interesting experience. This is definitely the barest bones pattern I’ve worked with so far, so it’s been nice to have to figure out what decrease I need to do to achieve the
Mexican Macaroni and Cheese – What’s Not to Love?
Sure, it’s a bastardization of a Rachael Ray recipe (my love of her oeuvre shames me, for no particularly good reason), but it’s Mexican macaroni and cheese! There’s chicken, and cilantro-y goodness! A combination of two of my comfort food standbys. I’ve been on a nearly two week long stretch of cooking apathy (mostly induced
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Weekend Notes
This weekend, we headed down to MA for Piemas, the festival of all things pie. (Well, it was Piemas observed, since Friday was the actual day.) And there was much pie, all along the spectrum from savory to sweet, and in pretty much every color of the rainbow. And it was good. I didn’t eat
The Goose Girl – Shannon Hale
Read for the Young Adult Reading Challenge The Goose Girl is an expanded version of the fairy tale where a princess is sent to marry the prince of a neighboring kingdom, but on her way there, the princess’s maid steals her identity and the princess is forced to work as a goose girl. Eventually, events
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The Belgariad – David Eddings
One of my prime reading equivalents to comfort food is David Eddings’s books, especially the Belgariad and Mallorean series. The Belgariad were among the earliest books that I bought of my own volition, and I could not even tell you how many times I read them when I was a teenager, though I can’t tell
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Knitting Notes
I cast on the Baby Yoda Sweater earlier this week, to give me something smaller to work on, since my Jaywalkers are temporarily hibernating. The back of that is coming along pretty well, though I haven’t gotten quite as much done as I might have otherwise, due to some crack-tastic David Eddings marathon reading (review