Comfort Food
It is freezing here! The temperature has been somewhere between 16 degrees and the low 30′s all week, for which I feel wholly unprepared. I didn’t have nearly enough time to try to fatten myself up for winter. Florence, one of my hens, is still half molting. Winter has just come a few weeks earlier...
Final Fall Project
As part of the curriculum in my three year landscape architecture masters program, almost every term includes a design studio where we work on a sometimes-hypothetical and sometimes-real landscape architecture project. We spend long-long-long hours in studio, getting to know each other a little too well, and then “pin up” our final design and drawings...
Cranberry Hazelnut Bread
My final design review for the term is this afternoon and we needed some snacks to serve for our guest reviewers. I wanted to bake a seasonal bread, but this is the time of year when seasonal produce is slim pickings. Cranberry hazelnut bread sounded like the perfect solution. I picked up the dried cranberries...
Turkey Day
As millions of Americans spent their weekend crammed into the grocery store stocking up for Thanksgiving, I was hanging out on a nearby farm for turkey-butchering day. Some people would find that odd, while to others the thought of buying a factory-farmed, hormone-pumped frozen bird wrapped in plastic for $1 a pound – something that...
Chilly Chickens
We had our first “storm” of the season a couple nights ago involving some chilling overnight temperatures, hard rain and strong winds whipping trees around. The next morning was cold and still, but branches and such were left along sidewalks as a memory of the night before. The first thing I think of when the...
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