Drive-By Blog Update
Been awfully busy lately, and that means the blog is the first thing to not get updated. I then tell myself, “I’ll have to update my website with all of the interesting things I’ve been doing.” Except,...
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High-Quality Tools
Earlier in the year, I bought from Woot.com an expensive high-quality cooking knife. It was such a great deal that I couldn’t resist. When it showed up, I remember being entranced just by the patterns...
View ArticleGood God, People, Just… No
If you are sitting at home wondering how you’re going to cook chicken, trust me, there are lots of better options than dropping huge globs of cream cheese onto it and stir-frying. Seriously. Trust me....
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Can-Can
I’ve been wanting to start canning for several years, but this August was when I finally took the plunge. My recent interest in canning began in 2009, when my friend Julie and I bought a...
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Minestrone
Most of the times, when I find myself thinking, “I know what food would be perfect right now,” it involves the next thought being, “But then I’d have to go to the store and buy a lot of ingredients...
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Five Things That Make Me Happy (part 18)
Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Unreal and the Real One of my all-time favorite authors is Ursula K. Le Guin. I fell in love with her books ever since I first bought a copy of The Wizard of Earthsea at our...
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Five Things That Make Me Happy (part 19)
My Abuela’s Table: An Illustrated Journey into Mexican Cooking by Daniela Germain I found this cookbook at a great home goods store just down the street (Trohv) and even though the last thing I need is...
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Five Things That Make Me Happy (part 20)
Kinfolk Magazine One of the things I like to buy at the store down the street (Trohv) is Kinfolk magazine, a slick squarebound quarterly publication. It’s about entertaining, about art, about...
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Saturday in Takoma
While most of today has been allocated to school projects (having finished off a research paper’s first draft, next up are three chapters in the oh-so-riveting Reference and Information Services: An...
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If at First You Don’t Succeed, You’re Drinking Coffee
I’ve never been a coffee person. It probably helped that growing up only one person in my family (my father) drank it, and I’ve never been a big drinker of caffeine to begin with, but coffee has always...
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