Yesterday my hub and I took the opportunity to drive down to the Golden Nugget flea market in Lambertville, NJ. There are a few tips I’d like to give on having a successful trip to a flea market.
For the last week, I have had a terrible cold. I still have a cold. My head has been stuffed for 7 days now. I ‘m still coughing so hard and I can’t sleep laying down. This week has, in general, sucked. I’m tired, and cranky, and tired of being sick. In general, I’m not…
This morning I spent some time watching the Today show to see coverage of the ongoing disaster in Japan. My heart goes out to those people in the affected areas. On the TV they were talking to an American teacher there who had escaped the complete devastation of the village she was staying in, along with many others, because the town had early warning Tsunami sirens…
While I love to cook, I’m like most people where I don’t like to cook every night. Leftovers, in general, are not a great option. Enter “divided cooking”. Divided cooking is a term I use to describe making a dish to a point where there’s not much left to do, and dividing it into separate containers to freeze and finish at a later date…
Sometimes in life there just doesn’t seem to be anything getting accomplished. The past few weeks I haven’t thought of anything I thought worthy of posting, nothing I can point to and say “I did that!”…
Inspired by down—to—earth‘s On My Mind Fridays. Over a year ago I bought paint for my office. Last Sunday I painted the first wall. All week I’ve been itching to start work on the second wall. A few years after we moved into the house, we painted the office a deep dark red, and built…
Inspired by down–to–earth’s On Your Mind Fridays.
Last year I bought a small iRoast2 home coffee roaster for my husband, because he was interested in learning more about coffee roasting (like most true coffee geeks)…
This morning I went to get into my car to go to the gym, and found that someone had busted in my driver’s side window and attempted to steal my stereo.
Posting inspired from down–to–earth‘s On Your Mind Fridays. On my mind today is Vanilla! I bought 1 pound of extract-grade beans online and I’ve started an experiment on making my own vanilla extract. I regularly pay $15 for 12oz or so of good quality extract, and I bake a lot so this may be a…