Around Thanksgiving, on one of my first Christmas shopping trips (this one on Portland’s fashionable NW 23rd Avenue), I found a cool scarf that I thought I would get for my niece. The scarf was made of many long thin strips of a jersey material, tied together at a couple of places. It came with [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Making a braided T-shirt scarf
Posted in family, making things, St. Louis on December 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Christmas dinner
Posted in cooking, family, food, St. Louis on December 26, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday, instead of cooking the dinner myself, I had the pleasure of watching (and photographing) as others prepared a wonderful seafood feast. Venetian black rice served as the elegant foundation for a rich, savory risotto. Other ingredients included fish (cod and drum), octopus, squid, clams and shrimp. Lots of hands helped with the preparation; there [...]
‘Twas the night before the night before Christmas
Posted in baking, family, food on December 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
And all through the house….I was baking cookies. I don’t always bake when I am not at home, but we got invited to a cookie sharing party and I decided to go for it. After flipping through a number of cookbooks, I ended up with my favorite, dependable and delicious Baking from my home to [...]
