Summer Linguine – Cover to Cover Cooking
Summer Linguine is the first recipe in our Cover to Cover Cooking series, where Denise & Jacquie cook the entirety of Hedi Swanson’s ‘Super natural every day’ and share their experiences. Denise’s Review: I got to pick out our first recipe. Meaning, I told Curtis that I wanted to use our the summer squash and zucchini in this recipe… which he kind of took over. I helped! Plus, it wasn’t…
The ‘Cover to Cover Cooking’ Experiment
Exciting news – My very good friend Jacquie is going to join me in blogging! Together we are starting a great experiment in which we will attempt to cook one cookbook cover to cover, every last recipie. Why? Well, The reasoning is twofold: (1) to explore some healthy vegetarian cooking, and (2)to force us to use one of the beautiful wonderful cookbooks that are cluttering up our cupboards. You see,…
Halloween 2011
Our Original Halloween Plans: Attend the Jam-music-fest Hangtown Halloween Ball in Placerville as 1 MC Hammer and coordinating Hammerhead Shark. But when it comes down to it, who wants to make a hammer head shark costume and pay mucho $$$ to see music? Exspecialy when you know our new cat Herman will be intent on trying to make you stab him with the needle and thread you meant to make…
Hoppy Halloween!
This could potentially be our cutest Halloween yet: Basil sniffed a pumpkin, the presence of cute animals at the apple farm, Curtis and I went as matching safari man & giraffe, and there was a bunny-kitten pumpkin! A Halloween this cute doesn’t come without it’s sacrifices though. Curtis and I had a long day trying to come up with a Halloween costume for him, which almost resulted in a dollar…
For now, we have crappy phone pictures of sweet velvet space paintings
Someday, Curtis and I will post pictures from our trip to Yosemite. For now, we have crappy phone pictures of sweet velvet space paintings in notable Groveland Antique stores! Adding to that list of something, as soon as I figure out how, and why, my camera SD card has a virus, and as soon as we shelves to finish un-packing, I will post photos of the new place. If you are so curious, we have…
bunny time
just some pictures of Basil…. hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hophop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hophop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hophop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hophop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hop hophop hop hop hop…
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