my house this weekend

When I wasn’t busy keeping Mack out of my cookies,

I made homemade granola.  It’s really easy and even though it calls for a lot of ingredients at first, once you buy the stuff, it makes a ton of granola.  The best part is that if you don’t have an ingredient, you can substitute something else! [...]

I apologize in advance

How sad that I’ve been reduced to this!  Here’s the deal.  Life has been busy.  There’s been furniture shopping (ordering, actually, nothing to show yet) and clothes shopping (TJ Maxx and Jones New York ROCK!) and book reading and deep thinking and self-evaluation going on and while I *have* been knitting, the time I used [...]

spiced chickpeas with spinach

Last month I had one of those great Saturdays.  I woke up energized, cleaned my kitchen and immediately proceeded to mess it up by cooking lunch.  Weekend lunches usually consist of leftovers around our house, so this was truly an occasion.

Perhaps it was my neighbor’s gift of fresh cut flowers that inspired me!
I subscribe to a few foodie [...]

simple things

Have you seen Tastespotting?  Beware, it’ll make you do things you have no intention of doing.  Make you want to cook things you previously had no intention of cooking.  I added Tastespotting to my Bloglines and after two days, I was acting completely irrational.

I paid a small fortune for fresh Bing cherries.

Which I then cooked in [...]

How about a recipe?

The days are getting longer and HOTTER – it reached 86 earlier this week – and let me just say I am NOT ready for summer!  I’d even go so far as to say I HATE summer.  There.  It’s out there.  I hate summer.  Spring?  Fall?  Love ‘em.  Love winter especially, the entire two weeks that [...]

Muscle shirts only from this day forward!*

Can I tell you how much I hate knitting sleeves?

They won’t get any longer, no matter what I do. I knit them a MINIMUM of 1.5 hours per day, steadily going round and round that Addi lace turbo size 5 needle (the one that turns my fingers black every time I use it), two sleeves at [...]

peanut butter soup

Earlier this week I made a comment on JenLa that this weekend I will be knitting wool and making peanut butter soup, that the air conditioning will be running but that I truly believe I can WILL Fall to arrive through my activities!
I think the words peanut butter soup really jumped out, because I’ve had [...]

No Muppets were harmed*

Have you heard of this?  I read about it on Sandy’s blog and thought, ‘I can do this.’  I didn’t get terribly far, but here’s the beginning of a fun fur hat that I hope a child will enjoy wearing.

C’mon, I bet you have some fun fur in your stash that needs bustin’ out!   
*I know [...]

Elizabeth’s Gourmet Pizza

Grace wasn’t the only one making pizza this weekend!  I made this Friday night:
 
Before baking and after.  It was really, really good.  It’s easy and we almost always have the necessary ingredients on-hand.  Here’s my recipe, in case you want to try it:
Elizabeth’s Gourmet Pizza
INGREDIENTS – Crust
1 package dry yeast
1 cup warm water
2 ½ [...]