Posted in Design, The Apartment on May 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It must be spring in the air—Over the last couple weeks I’ve been wanting to launch all sorts of new ventures and start really trying to make a go at doing the things I love.
Venture 1: Straw into Gold
I love decorating, especially when I get to be super creative on a tight budget. I [...]
Posted in City Life, Cooking, Cooking techniques, Food, Recipes, The Apartment on March 19, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Ok, so. I have spoken before about my unending love for Jamie at Home, and back in February I watched the pizza episode and promptly felt the urge to make dough from scratch. Hurray! It’s so easy! (Note: I had a tremendously bad day leading up to this attempt.)
Pizza Dough
adapted from Jamie Oliver’s Jamie at [...]
Posted in City Life, General, Home, The Apartment on February 20, 2009 | 7 Comments »
In late January I suddenly decided I couldn’t live with the drab faux-oriental rugs we had in the bedroom and dining room. Couldn’t stand them for another minute. I picked up a striped rug for the bedroom from PB, and ordered the (back-ordered) zigzag rug from West Elm. At the same time, I finally found [...]
Posted in Cooking, Family, Farm Box, Food, Home, Recipes, The Apartment, tagged CSA on January 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So here’s a problem I’ve never had before and doubt I’ll ever have again: We are the owners of too much steak. We received generous and delectable assortments of steak from two sources in the last six months, and our small freezer drawer was beginning to get a bit unruly. We gobbled down two of [...]
Posted in City Life, Family, General, Home, The Apartment on December 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I hope everyone else had a Christmas as relaxing as mine. My dearest friend came to stay (before flying out this evening) and we got to visit with another good friend—complete with much-delayed arrival and impromptu sleepover—on Tuesday night. We ate a delicious dinner Christmas Eve (more on that later) and slept in late this [...]
Posted in City Life, Design, General, Home, The Apartment on December 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I must be some kind of masochist; this afternoon as the snow barely started to fall I thought to myself “Kate, go run 90 errands. It is less than a week before Christmas and they’re saying to stay off the roads, but clearly you must acquire more Pine Mountain logs (like duraflame, but better, and [...]
Posted in City Life, Design, General, Home, The Apartment on December 11, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Now *this* was an exciting thing: Leah from More Ways to Waste Time asked me a while ago if I’d be willing to do one of her House Voyeur tours, and it went live earlier this week!
So here you go–a fairly-complete look at our apartment (I didn’t include the guest room, a dull place containing [...]
Posted in Cooking techniques, Family, Food, General, Home, The Apartment on December 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Ok, so it’s happened again. I am weeks behind and I blame technology, even though I settled the root problem weeks ago. Ahem. Basically I hadn’t uploaded photos since I left my job at the end of October. …Happy December! Right. I am remedying that.
Meanwhile, um… There was a lot of eating last week. Mom [...]
Posted in Farm Box, Food, Home, Recipes, The Apartment, tagged CSA on November 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Heeeeee hee hee hee hee.
See anything interesting? Let’s zoom in:
Carrot Pants! Hee!!!
Ahem.
The goods:
-1 rutabaga
-1 bunch beets, with lovely greens (purples!)
-2 red onions
-2 apples
-Salad greens
-Sweet potato fingerlings
-Carrots, including Carrot Pants.
I still had the kale from the week before, plus the lovely, lovely purple greens from the beets, so I decided to thaw some italian sausage and [...]
Posted in Cooking, Cooking techniques, Farm Box, Food, Recipes, The Apartment, tagged CSA on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So once it’s been actual weeks between posts, it starts getting harder and harder to write. Especially because a lot has happened in real life lately, and I haven’t really been focused on food. But ONWARD. I will post some short little recap things to get back in the swing of things.
Here’s what I got [...]
