My friend Lisa at work is engaged to a knight. No, not an Order of the Garter knight, but a really nice guy named Bryan who runs a jousting company called Noble Cause Productions. They travel between regional Renaissance Fairs and similar events and put on jousting demonstrations. Since this job keeps [...]
Bleargh - I’m coming down with a cold again. I swear I have got the weakest constitution of anyone I’ve ever known. If anyone so much as says “virus” at me, I get sick.
So I’m taking modest amounts of orange juice, checking my blood sugar and cleaning up around the house. I [...]
Sometimes experiments go very wrong.
Now this - this is just embarrassing. I had finished sauteeing a steak and was deglazing the pan with a little red wine. When you deglaze a pan, you pour in some liquid and scrape up all the cooked-on bits from the pan, then reduce the liquid to make [...]
This weekend I rode my bicycle down to the Sunday afternoon stitch ‘n bitch that one of the groups in San Antonio has each week. It was a sparse showing this time - just me and Courtney, the violist who lends a little bit of high-brow cred to our little group. We talked [...]