Here’s a snapshot of what we’ve been eating recently: Whole wheat blueberry muffins topped with homemade vanilla sugar. This is how blueberry muffins are supposed to look. Huge blueberries burst throughout ...
Of Seasonal Interest
Garden Helpers
We’ve had some yo-yo weather here on the east coast. Besides the ...
Sweet Potato and Chorizo Soup
Continuing on with my soup project with this post: pimp your Thanksgiving ...
Curried Acorn Squash and Apple Soup
Subtitles I was considering for this post: - pimp your Thanksgiving dinner, ...
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Greetings from Spy Rock
Went for a hike today with some friends from the gym. 1.5 miles of an entirely uphill trek means my calves are shot. Alex’s are fine. Maybe my apparent ankle inflexibility is also why I hate back squats and why I was terrible at breaststroke in my high school swimming career. Stopped by a local [...]
Doggy Stonehenge?
This is the view of the back of our house looking up from the almost-bottom of the hill. Take note of the 12+ pieces of firewood that been displaced from their comfy home on the patio to these mystifying positions in the yard, with the help of a certain four-legged fiend. I have stared at [...]
Eating from the Pantry
Definitely not the most… gourmet… meal we’ve ever eaten, but sometimes the weekend catches up with you and by the time you think about heading out to the store they’ve closed and your freezer stores are running low, so you just gotta make something tasty out of what you have on hand. Two cans of [...]
An Experiment in Three Cups of Tea
Lest you think I was referring to the sometimes-controversial story by Greg Mortensen, I would like to clarify that I drank three cups of green tea daily for the month of February. It was decaf green tea (though I found out at the end of the month that even decaf has a little bit of [...]
The Song of the Chicken
This morning began like a typical weekday morning chez nous: I woke up , fed the puppy, washed my face, and put on some sweats to go for our morning walk run bird-chasing adventure. We got back to the house, me panting and wheezing, and Nero sitting politely, haunches poised to spring into action at [...]
Absent(minded) Musings
I have been unexpectedly busy at my office day job. A change in staffing, though anticipated, has nevertheless brought with it a host of at-times overwhelming responsibilities and projects for me to manage, virtually solo, and has frequently left me wishing I could opt out of the conventional career paradigm (to borrow words from Joel [...]
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