Spindles and Spices

After I put four packages of rice stick noodles into my hand cart, I heard someone say, "These noodles are for lazy people who don'...

I know that Thanksgiving is supposed to celebrate abundance, but I get a kick out of turning things that would otherwise go to waste into so...

Nestled next to our external hard drive on the old, stainless steel laboratory table is the boy's first attempt at beer. A couple of fr...

My prolific friends and relatives are popping out babies left and right, so my knitting needles have been dedicated to baby clothes. Two mo...

The scary Chinese curing salt with the label whose ingredients simply read "curing salts" did the trick. I unwrapped my pancetta t...

In three more days, my homemade pancetta will be ready for some carbonara action! This project was spurred by a tutorial from The Tipsy Ba...

After I baked these spherical zucchinis, I regretted not adding some jack-o-lantern style eyes and mouths. That would have made them the pe...

Sometimes, knitting from a pattern is rather boring. One needs blue prints instead.   Operation Weaving the Spider's Web started as ...

Since I've returned from Greece, I've made stuffed tomatoes at least once a week. The first batch had crunchy, undercooked rice. Th...

I love it when people send me pictures of their cats rocking the International Cat Hats ! Amy was very kind to let me post her picture of t...