Two sunny winter days in the country, making cheese with my mum, is a pretty good way to spend the weekend. Mum met Gloria, the cheese maker at Leaning Oak. We tasted her cheeses as well. The one that really stood out for me was the lemon-marinated feta.

TEFL and Adventures in Tarragona Cataluna. The ins and outs of a year or two spent teaching English in Spain, and trying to eat as much regional food as possible. Saturday, February 11, 2012. It was cold and icy but with bright skies. Valls is a lovely historic Catalan town and this festival is . Monday, December 5, 2011. Sunday, July 10, 2011.

Recipes and ramblings from a very geeky gourmet. Sunday, March 4, 2018. Are any squashes edible to me? I can name two. The taste is mild and the texture is more vegetal than mealy. I have also found that I like spaghetti squash. Both varieties have mild enough flavors that can be covered with the right sauces. Squash with sauce was quite important in the past six weeks because I was participating in the Whole Life Challenge.

Spin All the Things! October 18, 2017. Ultracentrifuges, even desktop models, cost thousands of dollars. Then I heard about the Spinzall. All of the particulates remained behind in the rot.

Monday, May 9, 2011. In the last month or so of my pregnancy, I developed PUPPS. Which was quickly spreading all over my body. Unfortunately the only cure for this annoying ailment is to have the baby, so each day I spent pregnant was agony. No amount of hydrocortisone cream or baking soda baths would relieve my misery. When the itchysonofabitch pustules started showing up on the bottoms of my feet - yes, I was. I dimly recall being surrounded b.

This was my first properly decorated cake, so I gave myself a couple of days to work on it.

Monday, April 4, 2011. The sea is beautiful and inviting, but there is no moorage to be had within 50 miles. There are many boats here, as Port Townsend is the Wooden Boat capital of the world. Views of water and islands are everywhere, and yes, we can see Russia I mean Canada from here. Our little house in the woods is small and cozy, and does not accommodate our furniture gracefully. But best of all, Coco gets to run at the fairgrounds every day with his new dog friends. Thursday, June 24, 2010.