Category: everything else
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hello french toast
French toast, also known as eggy bread, Bombay toast, German toast, gypsy toast, poor knights, or Torrija, is a dish made of bread soaked in milk, then in beaten eggs and then fried. – Wikipedia Back before I knew gluten was a problem for me I would go almost every Sunday morning to my favorite…
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joie de vivre
Glad we made it to Friday and that tomorrow my time will be my own. I planted two mini magnolia bushes (shrubs?) the other night. YES, night. Tuesday night I was feverishly digging in the dirt and the dark, planting shrubberies, little purple flowers that I don’t know the name of and blindly spreading mulch…
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art therapy
I uploaded a black and white selfie to Dreamscope and look what I got! Jenny Lawson posted about this app so I tried it out and it was a pretty okay time. If you have extra time to play around with your pics this weekend, go for it. It took a while for each image…
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tidings of joy
When I walked outside Sunday there was a piece of paper on my stoop. I figured it was a church thing or an advert for the new local Pizza/Chinese place. It was rolled up so it could have been anything, really. Once I unfurled the piece of paper and got a look at it I…
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be back soon
This morning I opened my eyes and realized that I was having trouble reading my phone… not reading, really, just trying to get it switched over to snooze. Bits of wiggly light obscuring the vision in my left eye let me know that I was in for a migraine. It’s called Aura… and it lasts…
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breaking bread
I conducted an experiment last weekend where I followed this recipe for Cranberry Swirl Bread, traded out the cranberries for apricot preserves, and used gluten-free flour instead of regular ol’ all-purpose flour. IT. WAS. A. COMPLETE. DISASTER. I started over with regular flour (because failure is not an option and I was making BREAD, damnit!).…