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Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson
Recipe Thursday: Harira
We were very fortunate to have travelled to Morocco when we were younger and stayed with extended extended family. We travelled with a Moroccan and got to see all the in’s and out’s of a couple of the big cities and some of the countryside. We visited Casablanca and Rabat, stayed in Mohammedia, took aContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Harira”
Tuesday 2-Do List
The woodstove has been cranking, bringing in wood is a never-ending need these days but with the impending storms again, the wood crib needs to be filled (and we are really hoping we have enough wood this year — we should plan some holz hausen for next year!) Time to make bath soaks and teasContinue reading “Tuesday 2-Do List”
Monday’s Musing
(book at hand, on a snow day at home — actually, i pulled out Maxine Hong Kingston’s Fifth Book of Peace, and inside found a bookmark gift from years ago from the baker with his words which feel perfect right now…) This timethe quiet spaces thatfall betweenlike snow in a forestto cover the exposedgroundas thoughContinue reading “Monday’s Musing”
Catching up on a Thursday, with a recipe thrown in: Roasted Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce…
I know, I know, not really a thing, this ‘catching up on a Thursday’. It’s supposed to be recipe Thursday but maybe we’ll just do everything at once. That is certainly how it feels most days right now — how do we fit just everything we need to do in one day — we haveContinue reading “Catching up on a Thursday, with a recipe thrown in: Roasted Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce…”
Duendesday: Aftermath/Solstice Saga
{life with a curious and crazy 13 yr old} As D would tell it, our Solstice was cancelled and our celebrations ruined. She’s not one for silver linings yet. From a kid perspective, it was pretty terrible — all of her expected happenings and excitement deflated by means beyond her (or any of ours) control.Continue reading “Duendesday: Aftermath/Solstice Saga”
Tuesday Happenings: Minor Failures
Sometimes things just don’t work out as planned and it’s how you respond or recover from disappointment or change. We won’t even get into how the weather has been messing with our schedule and ability to function. We were surprised this week by one endeavor we thought we had down — canning applesauce. It’s aContinue reading “Tuesday Happenings: Minor Failures”
Settling In to the Season: a day adrift
Between the festivities of last week (Shop Local Saturday, our First Year Shop Anniversary — thank you all who came out to listen to the baker sing and celebrate with us!, and the finalization of my degree process — with Two Fat Cats Bakery cupcakes and a little effervescence with folks at Table Bar) andContinue reading “Settling In to the Season: a day adrift”
The 4th Thursday of Every November…
is dedicated to gratitude. As it should be, every American should be thankful for the Indigenous folk who saved their starving fundamentalist fannies so that the culture could grow and weed out those who helped in their time of dire need. So, many get together and re-envision what that gratitude could look like now —Continue reading “The 4th Thursday of Every November…”
Duendesday: ‘doll-world’
{life with a curious and crazy 13 yr old} Since she was a wee one, Duende has always made her own mind about her toys. We foster imaginative toys and we don’t buy plastic so she creates her own little worlds. She didn’t care for dolls when she was smaller, except a couple of stuffyContinue reading “Duendesday: ‘doll-world’”
