Ephemeral Chaos

Vice is such a relative term. Today's diets veer between no fats, no carbs, no gluten, no sugar. For many of our ancestors, budget would...

SAVORY POTATO BALLS A series of factors led me to chose this recipe from The Cook's Oracle . I'd been called on at the last minute...

Soon! I am having significant connectivity issues at home. In addition, I have been travelling extensively since mid-December. Once I got ba...

Some days, I feel like I've nothing to say when I update my journal, but I actually did manage to do quite a bit last week. 1) I'v...

I'm so glad the Ten on Tuesdays have been all about food of late. I always have something to say about food. Ten Favorite Sandwiches: ...

I actually have been knitting and knitting a lot. I need to reach a certain income threshold due to Missouri's butt-headed insistence on...

A friend nudged me to blog again, I'd been having strong writing urges anyway, and today's 10 on Tuesday was perfect for me. So he...

I love to barter, but it's occurred to me that I've got quite a few outstanding ones right now and wanted to note them down lest I f...

This semester is kicking my butt, so I've had to let fun stuff slide--fun stuff like eating home-cooked food.  I did actually make three...

I honestly thought I would not be able to do this challenge. I'm pushing up on a zillion deadlines and had three out-of-town trips in le...

I sent off the second round of craft-it-forward gifts this week. One (Joe R) hasn't gotten back to me with what he wanted, but I sent of...

Last entry's chop suey would have been perfect here, and I'm still reading the book (one last chapter to go), but the main reason I ...

For me, this challenge exemplifies the absolute rabbit hole that is historical research and some of the lessons I teach my students in my wr...

I missed the deadline on this one by two days, but largely because I just had a 15th of the month/30th of the month idea in my head. I had d...

I'm participating in this project largely as a way to encourage me to do more period cooking. I love to cook. At home. I've alwa...

Having just had to reread 3 months' worth of Facebook posts, I'm putting an update here to save me from having to check again. After...

I resolved this year to sew* four items. The panniers are done. All in all, the project was fairly simple--except for the caning, which...

I had said earlier that some of the Jane Austen packages were really random, so once mine went out and I began to wait for my incoming packa...