RecipeMuncher

Bill and the kids and I went to our favorite Asian market recently to stock up on a few things and get ingredients for a couple of meal ideas Bill had been kicking around. Part of the fun of shopping…

Here’s Julia, “Slippers,” the kitten, and the quilt Julia made for Slippers. We finished it last night. The bulk of the work was really done on Sunday – the cutting and piecing together the four blocks. After that, we worked…

Yesterday Bill took Alex ice fishing. It’s cold up here in the northeast right now, –1 F this morning, for example, so the ice on the local ponds is pretty thick. The menfolk dressed warmly and brought an extra pair…

I figured I’d start out with some of the easier repairs first. There are a few spots where just a single piece of fabric is frayed or torn, with nothing going on nearby. Like the square above. There was a…

It snowed here. I think it started falling in RI around three this morning. When we got up several hours later, we had about 3-4 inches of pretty, powdery snow covering everything. Including the bird seed. But when you’re hungry,…

One of the nicest things, so far, about cooking my way through Dorie’s Around My French Table with the wonderful French Fridays with Dorie gang is that I usually have all or most of the ingredients already on hand. It’s…

(That sentence should read “Learning how to type “repair” correctly, as for some reason it took me many tries to do it right.) My late mother-in-law, Elsa, made this quilt for my husband, her youngest son, long before he and…

Years ago (around twenty, actually) (wow) I did a lot of quilting. I’d learned to sew when I was a kid, and I made my first quilt when I was in high school. It was for my grandfather, who’d had…

My whole sewing area needed some straightening up, so I decided to tackle that earlier today. I moved and sorted and rearranged and consolidated, and now I feel much better about things. While I was going through everything, I came…

Earlier I was rearranging bins and books and things, and, of course, Softie wanted to get in on the action. “This one looks interesting.” But moments later a sound outside pulled her away. And I had to finish the job…

Perhaps that should read “Repairs to A Quilt Bill’s Grandmother Made,” rather than “the” – I’m pretty sure she made a lot more than one. Her name was Gladys. She was Bill’s paternal grandmother. As I understand it, this was…

Alex went outside to clear off the platforms for the birds. And Julia? She went outside to inspect and explore. Off she goes. Time to feed the birds. First, some sunflower seeds. Then a mixture of suet, peanut butter, cornmeal,…

Here’s the view earlier this morning from my kitchen window. It’s still snowing. Supposed to snow pretty much all day. This is one of the platforms on our deck railing. I put bird seed on here, and sometimes stale bread,…

I got home from work a couple days ago and Bill greeted me at the door with bad news. He’d planned to cook some of our stockpile of stuffies (stuffed quahogs) for part of dinner (we had at least a…

I probably am creating too many projects for myself this year. I can tell that already because it was only weekend number 2 and we didn’t bake any cookie cutter cookies. Instead, we spent a lot of yesterday working on…

I read an article on Etsy this morning called “Make Something Every Day.” You should read it. Go ahead. I’m still typing anyway. (ha ha. a bit of blogging humor. A very little bit.) Anyway, the article, which features Noah…

I ended up skipping a couple of French Fridays with Dorie weeks in December. I didn’t want to – in fact I’d made most of the December recipes ahead of time. But then the holidays kind of took over and…

I’ve never been a fan of marmalade. I think maybe I’d tried some when I was a kid and the slight bitterness of it turned me off. I probably had it at my maternal grandparents’ house. They were English, so,…

Yeah, we’re all about fusion here. Let me back up a bit. For New Year’s Eve, Bill made Peking Duck. We haven’t done this in YEARS – not since before we bought this house, and we’ve been here about nine…

So yes, I’m working. Part time. And no, I’m not really going to be writing about it in any specific sort of way. Much. Suffice to say, I needed a job, I’ve got a job, and it’s very weird to…

I didn’t do the braids. I need to learn how, or, rather, to practice so I can do them this nicely. Julia loves having her hair done. It makes her feel so grown-up, I think. And she looks older, too….

In December 2010 my son, Alex, noting the vast number of cookie cutters I have, suggested we bake a whole lot of cookies and use ALL of the cutters. From that seed of an idea, the Great Cookie Cutter Project…

Oh, hi. I didn’t see you there. Jayne? I don’t know, she’s somewhere around here. Maybe in the basement, folding laundry. I can’t keep track of these humans and their activities. I’m much too busy. I’m sure she’ll be back…

Just like a lot of people, I’ve made New Year’s resolutions. I will do this, I will not do that. I will eat healthy food, I will exercise every day, I will balance my checkbook, I will meditate, I will…