I spent the day doing a variety of kitchen-based activities. The thing I’m most delighted with? The ten pints of applesauce this pot yielded. Soon, a recipe (actually, more of a technique) will be up on Food in Jars, but for now, I’m just reveling in the satisfying abundance of it.
Last Friday at this time, I was racing around the apartment, tossing shoes, clothes and toiletries into a little black duffle bag and mentally running through my morning and evening routines, to ensure that I didn’t leave behind some essential cream or tube of lip balm. A few minutes before 12 noon, Thad and Angie [...]
Sometime early this afternoon, while was sitting at my desk, hunched over my lunchtime salad, my cell phone started vibrate. I didn’t recognize the number, but was intrigued enough to pick up (when you have a sister who’s an itinerant folksinger, you just never know).
A man’s voice was on the other end of the line [...]
This has been a whirlwind weekend, and now it’s just a few minutes before midnight on Sunday and I’m wishing for another day (however, I’d settle for another hour or two). My friend Cindy was in town, visiting from DC. Friday night, a collection of us drove to Wiggins Park in Camden for the second [...]
Wednesday night, despite the fact that I was feeling slightly tired and anti-social, I bought a sandwich, climbed into my car and headed across the Walt Whitman Bridge to Haddon Lake Park to meet some friends for the free Dar Williams concert.
I always find the transition from Philly to New Jersey a little jarring, especially [...]
A couple of days ago, my garbage disposal stopped working. This is not the first time that this disposal stopped spinning suddenly. When you have 40+ year old appliances, you come to expect outages now and then. In fact, one of the perks of my apartment building is that there’s an entire [...]
Until this last July, the only time in my life I had been paid for my writing was when I ten years old and submitted an essay to the Oregonian’s Thursday children’s page. They paid a whopping $10 for the right to print the story, an amount that seemed thrilling back in 1989. [...]
My friend Jamie came over for lunch today with her 18-month-old daughter Ivy. They spent the morning at a music class for toddlers and headed over afterwards, wearing complimentary down coats and smelling like cold morning air. I put out an odd assortment of foods for them including smoked turkey and white bean soup, beet [...]
I had an amazingly fun time tonight and I didn’t even have to leave the comfort of my apartment. I played host to the first ever Philadelphia Food Blogger Potluck. I’m not sure what the exact count was tonight, but I’d guess there were around 20 people here. It was food bloggers, food vloggers and [...]
Lately, my blogging around these parts has been nothing more than the digital equivalent of a lick and a promise. I dash in, quickly write a brief summary of what I’ve been up to lately, offer pictures instead of prose and run out again. I imagine the blog feels a little like my [...]
