Monkey Monday: Happy 2012 edition! 2 January 2012 10:36 pm
Posted by Tracy in : friends,fun,life,monkeys,photos,pictures,tea , add a commentHow happy is my start to 2012, you ask? I think my new tea-making monkey friend answers that question pretty darn well:
Seriously, I cannot even begin to say how awesome a gift this is. (more…)
One more weekend of Open Letters 26 November 2011 4:19 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,cross-posting,friends,fun,ingredients,pictures,random , add a commentToday I found quinces at the farm store down the street from my brother’s place in Vermont!
So I wrote them a little love note at my Open Letters blog. Check it out!
Foto Friday: Turducken, continued. 25 November 2011 10:25 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,events,family,food as spectator sport,friends,fun,hot mess,not even vegetarian,people,photos,pictures , add a commentHappy Buy Nothing Day!
I can’t even begin to tell you how hard it was to avoid making comments on Wednesday’s pictures, readers. If any of you clicked through to Flickr for larger versions (uh, correction, saw hover text from Flickr, since I didn’t quite have the technical ability: see below), you may have noticed a touch of verbosity in the captions there… Yup, those would be my efforts to channel away all the text I couldn’t use on a Wordless Wednesday. ANYWAY. In case you haven’t seen enough turducken to last you a year or more (believe it or not, this was Peter and my third such effort), and you didn’t eat so much yesterday that you don’t want to look at food till Sunday or so, eventually this post will be filled with more pictures of the ghosts of Thanksgiving two years past. For now, however, I am still at my brother’s place in Vermont, where neither Internet nor phone coverage are quite reliable enough to post much, so for now I will leave you with some teaser placeholder pics:
Twitter Tuesday is always a thankful day… 22 November 2011 7:11 pm
Posted by Tracy in : friends,random,Twitter Tuesday , add a comment…because I get to borrow other people’s brilliance, or humor, or just plain truth. This comment from my friend Ian is a fine example of that last:
ischempp (@ischempp)
There is little in this world more fun or satisfying than putting the finishing touches on a creme brulee
See? Like a magical sitar that only speaks the truth
Thank You Thursday: awesome garlic edition 3 November 2011 1:14 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,food as spectator sport,friends,fun,thank you Thursday,video , add a commentToday’s “Thank you” is first and foremost to my friend Chris, who shared an awesome pro tip on Google Reader back when that meant something beyond clicking “+1″ on a link for all the world to see but not really notice (you know, like before a few days ago?) Anyway, when I made a note to blog about the item in question, I made sure to cut and paste the message Chris sent with it, because yay for awesomeness (and another thing I will miss about the old Google Reader):
TrAAA-CY!
Thanks also for that message, Chris, it made me grin. And here is the highlight video of the good news, which also made the rounds among my Facebook contacts a month or so ago, and which has made my kitchen a louder but more delicious place:
How to Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds from SAVEUR.com on Vimeo.
So there it is. Yay! My reply (again, in Reader, back when such a thing was possible, and I know I am old and cranky and hate and fear change but wah wah wah all the same) was: “I KNOW! So awesome.” And it is. Also, (more…)
