June 16 We have a really hard time letting bananas go bad in our house. I will only eat bananas if they still have a little bit of green at the top of the stem, but regardless, it seems like no matter how many I buy they always get eaten. Why do I care? Well, […]
June 12 As much as possible, I try to avoid buying any type of snack food at the store. Maybe I have too much time on my hands, but I figure that whatever I can buy I can just as easily make at home (well, made not just as easily). A variety of reasons motivate […]
May 31, 2013 I was in Scotland a couple of years ago. Every morning for breakfast we would have the most delicious multi-grain bread with apricot rosemary jam. Months later, when I was home and unemployed, I decided it was time to recreate the jam. I went on a canning spree and made a bunch […]
May 30, 2013 Just before we moved to Vancouver we spent 4 weeks in Japan. I loved it there. It’s one of the only places that I have visited that I would want to go back to before hitting up all of the other places on my long, long list of places I want to […]