- Red wine vinegar starter
- Nourished Kitchen does non-canner preserving in the month of August. (sun-drying, oil curing, freezing, fermentation and salt-curing)
- Will Broome for Wedgwood Giftware Collection
- There was a solar prominence on Wednesday, and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory got this video of it:
- Do it yourself instruction on how to make a [...]
- Drinks overlooking the lake.
- Delicious dinners out at fancy once-a-year places.
- Taking pictures while walking around campus.
- Community fish fry!
- Surprise jet-setting friends who meet us for BBQ.
- An afternoon thunderstorm recorded off the back porch binaurally:
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- The chickens, who get all the half eaten, bug infested, [...]
Hey look! I’ve got a guest post over at GNOWFGLINS!
I’ve been taking the Sourdough eCourse and in the forums Wardeh asked us some questions about our starter and reading through them they sounded to me like questions from a dating site. I was feeling a little frisky that evening (I swear there was no wine [...]
Whew, I’ve not posted about all the yummy stuff I’ve made in a while.
Today I’m making sourdough pizzas for dinner, so this morning I got the starter out and have been letting the dough sour for a couple hours. It turned out extra well with fresh sliced tomatoes, Sand Creek shredded gouda, chiffonade basil, garlic [...]
We went to dinner with some friends on Friday, stopping off first at Iguana Grill to sip some pretty bad margaritas and chips and salsa and peer at the lake. After a fantastic dinner at Hudson’s On The Bend we headed down to campus to take night shots. I’ve not been able to figure out how [...]
-Neato lids for mason jars that make them more useful.
- How to make your own dishwasher soap – Handy for when I’ve run out, which is more than it should be.
- A discussion about relationship inventories
- A good article about the chemicals and hazards of manicures/pedicures – Austin has Pure Austin Nails which uses [...]
- Hundreds of peaches, peaches for free. Hundreds of peaches, peaches for me.
- My new chicken coop:
- Figs. Glorious, beautiful, local figs and friends who call me to [...]
- Successful garage sale and hanging with the neighbors.
- Momma coming in for a visit.
- Barton Springs, even if it was too cold to get all the way in that late in the evening.
- Argiope Aurantis(es)
- Vegetable lasagna and figs with honey with the neighbors.
- The surefire way of getting the tigers (that followed the peacocks) [...]
Homemade horseradish sauce – fermented, which I made this week.
How to make whole milk ricotta cheese
U Pick Cherry preserving madness – oh how I wish that cherries grew in Texas. Alas, I’ll be up to my ears in peaches next week.
A million healing uses for epsom salt
Yellow squash tarte fine – so summery and [...]
- Pouring rain, thunder, kashmiri chai tea and home made shortbread.
- Sushi Friday and getting wasted on a “box shot” of nigori sake. Sometimes making a total ass of yourself is quite fun.
- Seeing my farm friends, filling orders of tasty foods, getting the pick of the new meat.
- Quiet parties at friends with awesome houses.
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