Nigel Slater’s Tender Vegetable Tips
This book is a tome, with over 400 recipes and extensive gardening tips for growing vegetables, it has 624 pages of dense, but insightful, easy-to-read information.
Month: February 2014
YNAB and a Total Money Makeover
I couldn’t be more pleased that my husband and I read the above book together and have launched into a practical plan to get out of debt and find financial success.
Recipe: Crock-Pot Three Bean Chili with Avocado
Need to feed a crowd when you have very little time in which to do it? This is your ticket; it serves 10, is easy to make. and surprisingly delicious.
New Poem: Blue Shadows on Snow
Blue shadows look like piecework in an art quilt or thin indigo washes in a watercolor
Hartford Flower Show
My husband has always wanted to go to the Hartford Flower Show so this weekend we went. We had our expectations high since we remember an amazing flower show in NYC two and a half decades ago.
New Oil Pastel: Cup Bearer to a Persian King
I painted this 11″ x 14″ work in oil pastel. This approach to oil pastel is original, and is similar to the scraffito technique I’ve been
Please Pray for the Ukraine
Last September, when I sent out a call to pray for Syria on this blog, we were close to bombing them.
Poems Hide
I’ll tell you a secret: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them. Naomi Shihab Nye
Bits and Clips: February 2014
This once-a-month feature seems to be taking on a life of it’s own, so this time I’ve sorted it by categories. I hope you enjoy the links and videos below!
Recipe: Hot & Sweet Tofu
This vibrant sauce is the solution for the dullness of tofu. Don’t worry about there being so many red pepper flakes in this, since the honey more than compensates for them, and it isn’t too hot. We don’t eat much soy, nor fry very often, but when I saw organic sprouted tofu at Trader Joe’s, … Read more
My New Abstract Painting: Locomotion
This abstract painting titled “Locomotion” explores the idea that we have superimposed manmade speed and noise over the natural landscape, and while bright and engaging in its own way, the native beauty it rushes past becomes obscured. Are we on a runaway train with very little view from the window? This painting was done … Read more
Book Review: Harvest of Rubies
I loved this book and give it five stars; I am eager to read the sequel (titled Harvest of Gold). It is set in Old Testament times; Sarah, cousin to Nehemiah, is a Jewish scribe in the Persian court. She knows many languages, can handle complex accounts, is quick-witted and intuitive when it comes to … Read more
Movie Review: Philomena
Well, it had been a long time since I’ve been to the movies, and I had friends that enjoyed this one. I usually like Judi Dench, so we gave it a go today at a matinee before the next snow hit. It is about a young girl under the protection of a convent who got … Read more
Happy Valentine’s Day
Hope you have a wonderful Valentine’s Day! (We’re only under 19 inches of snow here, but have more coming tomorrow…) Hope you are cozy and know you are loved!
Our Youngest Turns 17
Well, we had a snow day on our youngest daughter’s birthday, so although wishing she could go to robotics (see Monday’s post) she had a nice birthday. You can see a photo of the snow on our picnic table below; that is now followed by rain and then supposedly we are due another six or … Read more
Jobina’s Haiku
Here are some haiku by my friend Jobina (Check out her blog here)… Life is not just mine. It’s all about how Love does shine – through all, for All. Confusion, mayhem upheaval … ‘til dove alights, peace breaks, love wakens. Lost in my own trap, I think I’m done, zoned out, gone …. then … Read more