The title of this recipe day should be ‘Really Obscene Salads’ but I liked the Seinfeld reference (who doesn’t? rewatching it occasionally is interesting; it is so culturally referential that when it is good, it’s good, and when it’s bad, it’s a real groaner – or shall we say, ‘no longer with the times’). WhatContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Really Big Salads”
Author Archives: Rachael M Rollson
Duendesday: Midwinter
{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} Happy Midwinter! Our Imbolc holiday was nice – we put away our Winter celebratory stuffs (take down the tree, put away the lights, stockings, and decorations of which I try and keep to 2-3 medium boxes, no more), we cleaned (it’s so important to take theContinue reading “Duendesday: Midwinter”
Monday’s Imbolc Muse
At Bridget’s WellBy Doireann Ní Ghríofa When rain fell on a path of stone,one by one, we appeared alone. Each of us wore a different face,but we were all the same – drawn by ache to lift green latches,drawn by want to walk the dark passage. Past paper stares, we kneltand wept, we who fed theContinue reading “Monday’s Imbolc Muse”
Duendesday: the Crazies
{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} We have stepped into Kid Twilight Zone…hear the music? She’s officially gone off the deep end. It’s all cardboard, all the time. This past week she made cardboard and cloth flip-flop’s for the dog and when he didn’t want to wear them, she made him cardboardContinue reading “Duendesday: the Crazies”
Monday’s Muse
“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.” “Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to expressContinue reading “Monday’s Muse”
Friday in Pictures: House Art Tour
let the images tell you their story
Recipe Thursday: Roasted Pork Shoulder with Chickpeas, Tomatoes, and Preserved Lemons
Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot, nine days old! Ok, well maybe not nine days but there are dishes we make that we make big and then eat leftovers for a day or so, then maybe turn into something else, and then maybe still freeze some. Some weeks are likeContinue reading “Recipe Thursday: Roasted Pork Shoulder with Chickpeas, Tomatoes, and Preserved Lemons”
Duendesday: January Thaw
{life with a curious and crazy 10 yr old} Duende Bloo is always planning something. A tea party, a wedding, a birth of puppies, and this week a soiree (she’s been trying out dresses and dances and considering punch). She plans tiny Lincoln Log villages with protective dogs trolling about, and mounts dolls on mightyContinue reading “Duendesday: January Thaw”
’round the homestead on a Tuesday
New things: Soft Rye Bread, Oatmeal Loaf Breads, and trial Seedy Bread Seeds and trees have been ordered (too many of the first, and not so many of the latter), tons of flowers and ornamentals (selling hanging baskets this year!) Soon to be tree-pruning and maple-sugaring time New floors throughout (mostly) – because all ofContinue reading “’round the homestead on a Tuesday”
Muses for a Monday
Ballad of the Moon Moon By Federico Garcia Lorca Moon came to the forgein her petticoat of nardThe boy looks and looksthe boy looks at the MoonIn the turbulent airMoon lifts up her armsshowing — pure and sexy — her beaten-tin breastsRun Moon run Moon MoonIf the gypsies camewhite rings and white necklacesthey would beat from your heartBoy willContinue reading “Muses for a Monday”
