On a sunny Friday, sometimes it’s good to invite a few friends over. Start with a snuggle and party planning on the bed. Make sure everyone is comfortable! When the menu is planned, tea prepared, and snacks laid out just…
Yearly Archives: 2011
Tsunami
My thoughts go out to the people of Japan who’ve suffered a horrible tragedy when an 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck, followed by a 33ft tsunami. Living in a seismically-active coastal area I’ve often run through my head the action plan…
Climbing Trees
There is something magical about climbing a living thing. Sure, clambering up the back of the sofa is okay, but much better to climb up daddy, grappling onto handfuls of shirt and digging toes into any crevasse hoping for traction. …
Bread Batter
It’s mesmerizing, isn’t it? Can you imagine what’s being whipped around in the mixer? Pancake batter? Icing for a cake? Nope. Bread dough. This is the ultra-high hydration olive oil brioche from the book Tartine Bread. I mixed this up…
Nowhere/Somewhere
Handmade Blog is light this week because I’ve got another professional licensure exam (hopefully the last). But I’ll set my readers to an interesting task: visit the town of Tange, Nepal. Zoom in with Google Earth until you can see…
My Daughter and a Mountain Lion
I love this picture for many reasons, all my own, but I hope you find some enjoyment from it too.
Hiking with a Toddler
Whatever conceptions you have of “going for a walk”, “hiking” or “taking a stroll”, please wrap them in newspaper and throw in the trash. Once you have a kid, you’re going to have to learn new meanings for all these…
Friday is Pizza Day
Then to the good people of the land was it Friday. A dough ball shall be taken from the freezer and left to defrost on the warm top of the oven above the pilot light. Lo there will be increased…
The Cycle of Food
A friend bought me a crab this weekend. Coming from Maryland, I’m used to crabs as small feisty things with a blue tinge to their shells. The gifted crab I got was wrapped up in a plastic bag and weighed…
San Diego Snow
Sometimes it can be surreal living in Southern California. You can be wearing a t-shirt outside then hop in the car, drive 35 minutes, and end up in a winter wonderland. The massive boulder piles east of San Diego are…
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