I got some einkorn flour from my subscription flour service and tried to make short bread. It tastes okay but is extremely hard. More like hardtack than a tender cookie... I was going to try a pie crust because everyone says that these ancient grains make lovely pie crust but... let's be honest. Pie crust [...]
Category: book sample
DST is annoying
It always takes me a few days to get used to the hour I just lost on Sunday and how the sun is going to be in a different spot at "7 a.m." and I'm going to be surprised at what the light looks like at dinner time. I always have a month or two [...]
Purely domestic
Purely domestic… Spelt bread ... Ipecac ... Pink Crisco ... Empty toothpick containers ... Vestment patterns ... I started cleaning some cabinets, partly as a way to procrastinate, as my writing moves forward inch by inch. I figure out ONE plot point, write it up, fix all the side bits it impacted, and then … [...]
Writing, writing, writing
I love this view of the mountain obscured. Where is the top?! That's how I feel about my writing at this moment. I'm at 77, 991 words and I just blundered into the fog. I'm close but not at the top yet. Wherever the top is... I've got to keep going!
The baked beans were great!
I mentioned a three bean/baked bean recipe last Friday**, and can now report that I tried a version of it, using canned butter beans and navy beans as the second and third beans. I like the spices that I actually used, to wit, bacon, dry mustard, BBQ sauce (the recipe uses ketchup), brown sugar, cider [...]
