As you may remember, I spent last week in St. Louis visiting the midwestern branch of my family. It was the kids’ spring break and all of their friends had high-tailed it for Florida or other points south, so I was hoping to be able to provide some in-house entertainment. The first part of the [...]
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Really chocolatey cupcakes
Posted in baking, family, St. Louis on April 1, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Making a braided T-shirt scarf
Posted in family, making things, St. Louis on December 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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