Posted in breakfast & brunch, family, Josie, vacation on Oct 24th, 2009
I will not miss summer, not frizzy hair and heat for one minute – but every leaf fell today, dragon-red streamers in a parade of pouring rain. It was lovely, and made me want to spin each leaf on its stem, examine all the lace veins and every dry serrated edge. Still, it took walking [...]
Posted in Josie, Tell Simmer on Oct 3rd, 2009
Hello, friends and readers; if you’re reading on a weekend, no doubt you’re both. Life intervened this week, keeping me from Simmer with its pesky errands and calls. Not to mention that behind-the-scenes writing, you know, serious stuff, stuff not about crazy-Edie eggs or stick-eating dogs. Before the blog rolls tumbleweeds, let’s pass the time [...]
Posted in fruit desserts, Josie, recipes, ten-word thursday, vacation on Aug 13th, 2009
Oh sure, you’re thinking, sure. Radio silence for a week, and then just ten words? Well, yes. But they are a juicy ten. You may recall that we just came down from Lake Superior country, and up there, everywhere, blueberries. Wild blueberries from green brush, tumbling down from Canada, blueberries not from the store, little [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast & brunch, Josie, recipes on Aug 7th, 2009
Quick – what do you get when you mix gleaming tools, anesthetic, swelling, gauze, ice packs and codeine? That’s right. You get oral surgery. Today, poor Miss Josie had her third go-around in the big chair. Three times now they’ve tried to uncover a tooth that just wouldn’t budge; today, the doctor made that tooth [...]
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 [...]
