Six or eight weeks ago, I told you about my new thing for muesli. We are still in the honeymoon stage. I found a great glass jar at a garage sale, and I’ve freshly filled it every week. For some reason, Yancey and I both consume it much faster than we ever did granola. He [...]

You wouldn’t know it from my recent posts about cookies and caramel corn, but we’ve actually been eating really well around here these days. Tons of veggies, lots of grains. My resolutions are holding up.
But yesterday I had an hour to kill between work and yoga, and ended up at the grocery store to get [...]

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Emily and I had an urban retreat last weekend. She stayed at her place, and I stayed in Julia’s apartment across the alley (Julia’s out of town). We had planned to go to [...]

If you want a much better history and description of these treasures, click over to Orangette. I’m just here to testify.
My testimonial: regular buttermilk pancakes don’t tempt me anymore. They’re so…what’s the word? Oatmeal-less. Disappointingly fluffy. I’m always after texture–crunchy, chewy, crispy, toothsome. My default pancakes don’t have any butter in them, though you’d never [...]

Birthday mania around here.  We had 25 people in our 800 square feet yesterday.  Why do I clean before parties?  What is the point?!  I suppose it’s for that first guest.  They can walk in without tripping over a pile of shoes, and I can lay their coat on an unrumpled bed. After that, trying [...]