It's cold outside. I made some ordinary chocolate chip cookies at Christmas time as a gift for someone. I hadn’t made them for quite a while and they were good. Very good. I had forgotten how good homemade chocolate chip cookies really are. And since I gave these all away I didn’t get much more [...]
Across the Airless Wilds by Earl Swift, 2021, Harper Collins, New York was one of my Christmas presents. The subtitle, The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings, makes clear what the book is about. The author writes, in a discussion of the Apollo 14 mission, "the moon played tricks on them. [...]
We visited the new Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia over the weekend. This was planned for a long time and there were reasons why it had to be at this moment. Since we are safe I won't second guess what we did, but the snow was unpleasant. Here's a picture from the edge of [...]
I’ve been reading about ‘ancient grains’ for a while. The name itself amuses me. Ancient grains are einkorn, emmer, and spelt, generally speaking. They are considered to be precursors of modern wheat and are sometimes recommended for people who are wheat sensitive (— whatever that means — I don’t think they would help actual celiacs.) [...]
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