I found myself with three overripe bananas who seemed to have sent a special express message to any fruit flies in the zip code. And I had just reorganized my kitchen area. I hate wasting food. These factors combined to form this banana bread. I could use the bananas, test the new setup and not… Continue reading Banana bread (split style)
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A week of color
A friend and I decided to take a picture every day for the last week trying, to capture the rainbow. This is what I came up with. It was an interesting project and it certainly had me paying more attention to my surroundings than I usually do. The blue sky picture was captured one morning… Continue reading A week of color
Recipe 100
About 2 weeks ago I completed one of my more ambitious birthday goals: try 100 new recipes!! I learned a lot about the things that I like and the things that I don’t like. I also learned a lot about foisting things upon other people! This is a Cardamom Crumb Cake from the latest Everyday… Continue reading Recipe 100
Moghali-Style Chicken
I suppose I could have called this post Moghali-Style Chicken with Spinach, Almonds, and Raisins. I want to say so much about this dish, but I don’t think that I have the words to fully convey the delciousness. I got up and ate the remains of this for breakfast, cold right out of the fridge,… Continue reading Moghali-Style Chicken
Dance Lesson
I decided to take a dance lesson this evening. I had been wanting to try samba for a little while and a local dance studio happened to be offering the class. I’ve done dancing of one sort or another for many years. I took dance classes as a young youngster and more recently have been… Continue reading Dance Lesson
7-up Cake
Believe it or not, I have never ever had 7-up Cake before today. I was trying to deal with the magazine infestation that has plagued me for some time when I came across a recipe for the cake in an old issue of Cooks Illustrated. Sounded good. So I clipped the recipe and bought the… Continue reading 7-up Cake
Best intentions
So, a little while ago, I stated over on Facebook that I had planned my meals up through March 5th. A few friends said, hey, I’m curious, what did you plan. Nonchalantly, I replied that I would post about it on my blog. And then I meant to do it, and then I didn’t. In… Continue reading Best intentions
Day 2
The thing about vowing to dedicate a year to creativity is to find the time for it. Today was one of those days when time was more scarce than it should be. It was the kind of day when you just have to make the decision at the beginning of the day that you are… Continue reading Day 2
My Creative Year
This is it, the thirtieth birthday. I am as full of, wait-I’m-not-twenty-something-anymore angst as a lot of people when it comes to this milestone birthday. I remember saying, as a child, “on 9-9-09, I’ll be 30,” and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. And now that the day has come, well, I still… Continue reading My Creative Year
A return
One of the things that I have been struggling with this year, actually for a little more than a year, actually, is writing regularly. I think that I attended my writing group twice in 2009. I used to go religiously. I need to give myself a good, firm kick in the pants with sharp, pointy… Continue reading A return