Things like Katy sees them.
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 31st, 2009
Apologies for a late answer to Name That Object. I had forgotten that we would in fact be out of cell phone range and general wireless communication in High Shoals, GA for two days- a beautiful thing. OK, they do HAVE wireless, but I like to pretend.
Yes, Rachel and Caleb, it is indeed an Amish [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 28th, 2009
Today, we play a game: name that object. This is an object that I have always wanted, and was delighted to find one today for a dollar. One of the cleverer and more humorous inventions we humans have dreamed up. Do you know what it is? I’ll tell you tomorrow if it doesn’t come to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 27th, 2009
My own tomato plants were sorely neglected this year, and took some abuse. Thus, they’ve yielded perhaps 10 tomatoes. Not a grand return- but a rather bad investment.
Thus, it came as an absolute delight when our neighbors Nomad and Mare told us that, sadly, they’d be out of town all through tomato harvest, and their [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2009
So, this is the neurotic Nashvillian in me. I wanted you to know that I am doing things other than making food. It’s just such a lovely season for it, and it feels like worship to make something good out of the earth. It’s such an obvious miracle every time I get to create food [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2009
Kenny cheered me on, and I gutted the snapper. The pictures end when the real fish prep begins. But I did in fact cut the gills out of that fish, and scrape all of its scales off.
No finished pictures- no time, from cooking to eating. The sauce made the whole. The Provencal butter sauce. Man. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2009
I have grand hopes of cooking a trout tonight, and laughed out loud to myself for two minutes over this: “Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or a striped bass. Don’t panic-take it!”
-Julia Child, The Way to Cook
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2009
Well, I harvested a pumpkin this morning. Between the 68 degree weather and picking my first pumpkin and school starting, it’s enough to make a body wonder if fall is coming on.
I wash hoping that this guy would be my Halloween pumpkin, but alas- the squash bugs were dangerously close to infesting his portion of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 23rd, 2009
Is there anything sweeter than twin eleven year olds knocking down your door all week, asking to bake cookies?
One day they forgot, then I forgot, and we made plans for today at 2. They started knocking at 11:30. As I’d gotten up at 11 after reading Andrew Peterson’s wonderful On the Edge of the Dark [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 21st, 2009
I wanted to pass this along- Makoto and Judy Fujimura do a wonderful job of exploring why Julie and Julia is such a delightful celebration of art and marriage. Enjoy!
http://www.curatormagazine.com/makotoandjudyfujimura/the-art-of-marriage-in-julie-and-julia/
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 20th, 2009
No, no pigs flying, no skiing in the Bahamas. But yes, we are playing some shows here and there this fall. New dates up on the Shows Page. Are you in the Carolinas or the Midwest? We’re coming.
