Long term obsessive readers or midcentury wonks might remember this great little table I picked up off of Craigslist. I’ve been meaning to refinish it for years and I finally got around to doing it with family coming in to…
What I’m Eating – Pickled Tomatoes
I made these pickled green tomatoes in my canning frenzy of last year. I ended up with a TON of green tomatoes and not enough time to wait around for them to ripen, so I searched through the internet for…
Homemade Marinara Sauce – and Pesto!
I canned up 30 qts of marinara sauce, and I’m worried it won’t be enough to get us through to next summer. This stuff is good, you guys. We’ve already used it on top of noodles, in a baked ziti…
2011 Year of Pleasures #38
When Clif and I came across this store on the pier at Fisherman’s wharf, we both busted up laughing. Cartoons are real, y’all.
Tourist in my own town
I’m playing catch up over here, getting to the blog late, racing home to meet the school bus as it waited in front of my house, skipping nap time because I’ve got stuff to do and Atti is content with…
Green T-Shirt and Cardigan
This is Simplicity 0493. I normally avoid sewing knits, I have never gotten my serger to love me back and Tim Gunn would totally bust me on my wavy hems, but this green jersey was so soft and such an…
Fried Green Tomatoes with Parsley Ranch Dressing
When I bought all those tomatoes to do my canning, they came straight from the farmers selling them to grocery stores, which means they came to me green. I put them out on the back porch in the sunshine to…
What I’m Eating – Apples and Cheese
As part of Project Put Together, I’m shaping up my eating habits in the most time efficient way I can find. Red Delicious apples spread with Laughing Cow creamy swiss cheese. They were passing these out as samples the last…
2011 Year of Pleasures #37
The. Best. Ice cream in the world. And I think I’ve shown by how often ice cream comes up in these year of pleasure’s that I have very strong opinions about that. This is from Joe’s Italian Ice in Anaheim,…
Calendar Corkboard
Remember those pushpins I got a couple weeks ago, just because they were cheap and I loved them? Since I’m such a clutter-phobe, I had to come up with a place to use them, so I made myself a corkboard…