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January 2008
Easy Duvet Cover
We do not use top sheets at our house as they are tedious and instead we use duvet covers, most of which are made out... Read more »Baking With Buttermilk on a cold winter day
Something about a day dusted with snow that makes me want to bake. I'm not a big baker but I do make corn bread, one... Read more »The Parsnip Lines Of Western Oregon
There's been all kinds of speculation around the local eating tables about the possibility that if everyone was to realize how important (and better) it... Read more »The Road Home
This is the road home from Portland where I stayed the night with my mom. But this is also a very familiar landscape of the... Read more »A Brand New Chapter
In which Angelina takes up knitting needles once more(but will not be knitting anything challenging)So very much has happened recently that when life gets quiet... Read more »Ozark
May 1995 - January 23, 2008Labels: cat, dead pet, ferocious, Ozark, wonderful kitty... Read more »Pasta Twists
When I go to the pasta isle at really good grocery stores I am enchanted with the many shapes in which you can buy it.... Read more »From Seed Back To Earth
Or so the story goesI am practically holding my breath. This whole dying thing is much quieter, more private, and full of anticipation than I... Read more »Jane Austen Didn't Smoke
I rented the movie "Mansfield Park" this week. Not the one that was done in the seventies, but the more recent one featuring Jonny Lee... Read more »Making Medicine At Home
(not a recipe yet)It is getting increasingly difficult to find recipes and instructions for making your own medicines at home due to our litigious society... Read more »Midwinter Eating
(Local Eating Challenge Update)Apples at the Hillsdale Farmer's Market. They have a "Newtown Pippin" that I tried this week and it was amazing! I rarely... Read more »The Expected Guest
How does one go about watching another being die? Are we supposed to wear a certain face? A speakingly sad posture? Is there an... Read more »Botanists Are Fun People Too
(and how growing food is better than growing plants for cats to pee on)I'm noticing a trend in teaching methods at my Master Gardening classes.... Read more »Snow Bird Comes Home
(but without the snow)It's fitting that after such a rough day yesterday I would wake to a ghost landscape all covered in white; the last... Read more »I'd Rather Work For Love (tm)
As I walk away from thousands of hours of hard work; of designing the best work of my life; of hitting the pavement for... Read more »It's All Between Me And My Turnip Now
The Complete Defeat Of My Commercial ExistenceDustpan Alley as a business is over. No more Etsy. No more website. Just the writing. This has been... Read more »Further Adventures In Cheese Making
Yogurt Cheese: Tink's WayIn my post about making yogurt cheese one of my commenters, Tink, described her own space saving method of draining the whey... Read more »Wanna Raise Some Eyebrows?
Although the concept and words were mine, I have to admit that Philip did all the work. He did the artwork, the computer work, and... Read more »Counting Grace Backwards
One Month Of RestHillsdale Farmer's MarketReprieve is a beautiful word to both criminals and me. I've had a very long 30 months without any mental... Read more »Swiss Chard Egg Scramble
My breakfast comes with some dirt, snail trails, and random feathers, how about yours? I was so lucky to be able to harvest some chard... Read more »The Story Of Our Dangerous Pet
One night in 1994 I had a dream in which I found a kitten and in the dream I knew his name was Ozark and... Read more »Life In The Fast Lane
Master Gardening and Dying Kitties(never a dull moment)Ozark The EmperorOzark is 13.5 years old and is dying of FIV which, if you didn't already know... Read more »Yogurt Cheese Report
Arty picture of cheese bowl to disguise the fact that my old camera takes crappy pictures and I dropped my new one on the floor... Read more »Doing Global Math
This is my bowl of empty prescription bottles. That's not how many prescriptions I use, by the way. I have only two prescriptions that I... Read more »The Yogurt Cheese Experiment
Once, a long time ago, back before the Universe decided I needed the excitement of my first broken bones and a renewed relationship with poverty,... Read more »Nothing Green To Eat
(a local eating update)As I've been running ass over tit through crystalized molasses to rectify the imbalance in my head that is now causing me... Read more »The Blood Drive Of 1989
(when coffee cost 25 cents and came with a roach)Back in 1989 I was a nineteen year old fashion design student living in San Francisco,... Read more »Disordered
Disordered- adj. 2. suffering from or afflicted with a physical or mental disorder(This is my birthday post. I'm 38 years old today) What if you... Read more »Amy Stewart Is Bored
(and it's our fault)Amy Stewart is bored of people talking about eating local. She said so on NPR. She is tired of the tedium of... Read more »Raising Fists Of Fire
(or how to bring out the feminist in me)I started reading Jon Krakauer's book "Under The Banner Of Heaven" which is his nonfiction book about... Read more »Broken Rice Salad
I am not normally a fan of wild rice. It's chewy and reminds me of brown rice which I'm also not normally fond of. Brown... Read more »The Importance Of Being Seed
Note: this is a reprint of an old post I wrote last spring, so some of you who have been reading my blog that long... Read more »Planning The Urban Homestead Spring Garden
(for the new urban homesteader)When planning your garden for the upcoming spring season you have to make a lot of decisions about what you're going... Read more »« December 2007 | Main | February 2008 »