Posted in blogging on Aug 29th, 2009
If you tried to visit Simmer yesterday and got nowhere, my apologies. Due to some merciless ghost in the machine, the site was down all day. Now it’s back up, but appears to be fevered and coughing. Pages, posts and other content may or may not be working, but the front page is; Upside-Down Tomato [...]
Posted in blogging, friends, small bites on Aug 25th, 2009
I have noticed, lately, a real crossover from the blog world to my real world, especially on the plate. The last two big-time food posts here at Simmer were designed for Summer Fest, brainchild of Margaret Roach, from A Way to Garden and The Sister Project. I loved having a directive: one week tree fruit, [...]
If you’ve ever read this post – the one about diamonds and pie – you’ll know that it’s that time again, the time when we get in the car and drive north, and north, and more north. We stop right before people wave maple leaf flags, way up in the tall green woods, at a [...]
Posted in blogging, books, friends, Josie, sketchbook on Jul 12th, 2009
Why are we detouring into the nursery? Well. When Josie was very small, and I was very tired but she was not, I’d walk the floors with her in the dark, and make stuff up. Nonsense murmuring stuff, like this – a rhyming stream of bakery talk. Yes. I was one whacked-out sleepy caterer. Why [...]
Last week I was lucky enough to spend an afternoon with the delightful Jane, aka Modernemama, from the blog Beach House. Jane hung out with me in Lawrence for hours, but as neither of us love being in front of the camera, there’s just a few self-shot pics of us together. She did manage to [...]
