Month: March 2009
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Fish-Rice
When I was growing up, I ate fish a few times a year, and it was always on Fridays during Lent. I remember not understanding why we had to eat fish… “but we’re just not supposed to eat meat, so can’t we just have cheese pizza or cheese enchiladas?” For some reason, no, it was…
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Home sweet home
I finally feel like I’m home. The apartment is almost completely set up, with the exception of a few missing curtains and some random piles of junk. Most importantly, my kitchen is ready. It’s all organized and beautiful, and it feels so good to cook in it. This was a simple dinner of asparagus sauteed…
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SXSW Austin 360 Food Blogger Bash
So, if you’ve been a cave for a week, you might not know that SXSW is in full swing here in Austin. For us that means traffic downtown, street closures, visitors trying very hard to look cool (except that they can’t possibly look cool because they’re wearing huge badges hanging from their necks), music EVERYWHERE,…
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Four years.
So I just realized that I’ve been blogging for four years (as of March 7th). That’s a really long time! I think I’ve had a few breaks from this blog (like when I blogged from Boston for a few weeks), but mostly I’ve been here, plugging away. I really started this blog as a way…
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We’re all friends again.
A week after the move, the kitty cats are finally friends again. At first Roux would hiss at Miette every time she got near him, so she spent most of her time hiding. Apparently they’re over it. Now they’re giving each other baths and snuggling with me on the couch. Oh yeah, was I supposed…