Now when it comes to talking about Dia de los Muertos... as a white, middle aged, blond haired, green eyed guera, I consider myself no entitled-ass expert over here or anything. But know this- while I am not Mexican by birth I married one, we're raising three, AND I made alters for Dia de … Continue reading Dia de los Muertos Ofrenda… no Offend-a
It's been raining forever down here, it seems. Remember literally 3 posts ago where I was talking about the fact that every living thing with roots around here was a mere three days away from sudden death if I forgot to water them? We had some exceedingly close calls with a few Japanese maples, lost … Continue reading “I bless the rains down in Baklavaaaa…”
Yakiniku (Meat Sauce... thanks for generalizing on that one, Japan) is a sweet and sour sauce with fruit juice and sesame seeds used on meat and is tastier than I just made that sound, I promise. So you make the meatballs and brown them, then simmer them in this sauce to finish cooking them and … Continue reading Asian Meatballs in Yakiniku Sauce
In the refrain of my last few years: the world lost another good one recently. (I am not, in fact, talking about John McCain, mind you. This one's a little closer to home.) I am both doing well and extremely sad- it'll hit at weird times. Watering the plants. Picking tomatoes. Randomly this sense of … Continue reading Questions Unasked
The garden in August is a lesson in survival and non-survival. Miss a day's watering and your three year old spirea is toast. (Not a hypothetical example). It's cut to the ground and is starting to leaf back out- that was touch and go though, it was in no way a given that it would … Continue reading The Texas Garden in August aka Picante’s Inferno
Like dude, that title amiright? Agrodolce means something about sweet and sour, and I’m 90% sure it’s Italian. You don’t get that kind of half assed explanation outta the Barefoot Contessa, now do you! If you can’t blaze your own path, store bought is fine. This is the culmination of a long search for a … Continue reading Carrots Agrodolce with Currants
Like a random word post, and it's been awhile, so figured I'd give it a whirl today. But first- I JUST realized that after I send a post live I often have some editing (misspelled words, etc.) that I correct and update. Those updates do NOT seem to be going to those of yall who … Continue reading Random Word Generator Prompts
I was out on a construction site for work today next to the police station in Cibolo, TX... and there was an old cemetery across the street that looked beyond intriguing. I've discussed my love of old graveyards before here. I wrote on that previous post about the peace of graveyards, and how time kinda removes … Continue reading Of Grave Importance
So, it's actually been a pretty busy summer, multiple posts about ice dyeing aside. For the past few months I've been volunteering on the texting campaign for Beto O'Rourke for Texas Senate. He's running against that asshat of a tapir, Ted Cruz. I started donating to the O'Rourke campaign for $25 a month way back … Continue reading In Other News…
So why are there no white spots, even though these were more tightly crammed in than the previous batch? I may have soaked these more than the other ones... so maybe the white on the previous set were dry parts in the center of some folds? Not 100% there... Here is the thing- LOOK at … Continue reading Ice Dyeing: Last Night’s Batch Turned Out Like This…
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