Ceramics Saturdays: Nasco Sayonara and Real (Well, Almost Real) Kintsugi Project
Discerning viewers may have noticed that the china featured in the ESC #49 post was different from my usual options of Churchill Blue Willow (or its saucy cousin, Calamityware) or Iittala Taika. That’s because I finally decided to be an adult and get 12 place-settings of the same pattern—instead of always having to mix and…
ESC #49 and Truffle Hunting!
So one of the very first recipes in my To Try file (the OG version, in an actual filing cabinet on actual paper), was a French fish dish. Not terribly chef-y EXCEPT for the fact it called for fresh white summer truffles. Yeah…. So, it sat in the old To Try file, and then migrated…
Strawberry Matcha Latte
I’m not a matcha latte kinda girl. I don’t like bitter matcha at all (I’m a super-taster, so bitter tastes are really cranked up to 11 for me), so I tend to buy really expensive matcha when I do buy it—which means I’m not going to turn around and dump it into a latte…. But…
Recent Audio Books: Silence of the Girls and Marrow Thieves
These were both good–well-written and read well by the voice actors. And each in their own way perfect to listen to across the long desert miles between the Sierra Nevada and the Sangre de Cristos over Spring Break. The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker: This is part of the recent trend of revisiting/revising the…
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