I’m typing up the instructions for these mostly so I can remember how I made them. This was a “snow day I’m bored late brunch.” First: Hard boil 4 eggs. Cool in an ice bath, peel, carefully cut in half lengthwise and put the yolks in a small bowl. Take […]
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Jan 1 2020 I started the year with a road trip to Rialto beach. There is something about starting off my year with the cleansing energy of the ocean air that I love. The following week I made reservations at La Push for New Years Eve weekend December 2020. […]
I planted a tree. Let me start this story over. A couple of weeks ago Beast ran through my altar and knocked my Aphrodite statue to the floor, breaking her. This is the second time she has been broken. The first time was when Amber did the same thing many […]
Wildcrafted Beaked Hazelnut I almost always forget about harvesting the Beaked Hazelnut (Corylus cornuta) until it’s too late. With the pandemic keeping me at home this summer I actually managed to beat the birds and squirrels to some of the nuts on our property. Now is a good time to […]
My recipes tend to be just lists of ingredients and I adjust depending on how I feel. Here is the basic ingredients and instructions for the hand pies I made for dinner last night. For the crust (I also use this for veggie or meat pot pie crusts). This is […]
I’ll make this post prettier later, for now I want to get this all written down before I forget 🙂 My goal was to make a fluffy white bread that my friend Jade would like and that used sourdough starter. I started from the recipe at this link: https://ladyandpups.com/2016/05/13/ultra-soft-stringy-sticky-rice-bread/ (and if […]
I forgot to post this recipe after New Years Eve. I wanted to make a special sourdough bread for my friend Jade. I looked at a bunch of recipes online and then sort of made this one up. Ingredients: Fed sourdough starter (I used about 2 cups that I kept […]
I watched a show called, “Cooking with fire.” So, of course, I needed to make Tandoori chicken. I looked at a couple of recipes and modified them to fit the spices I had in the kitchen. Here’s how I did it: Spatchcock the chicken, cutting it down the breast bone […]
It’s been a while since I did anything with my actual website or blog. I was having thinky-thoughts this morning about some of the changes I want to make this year in my artistic practice and this seemed like the right place to start logging that process. A brief summery […]
Being a working artist. Most of the time? I love it. I love being able to make things. I love being in charge of my work. I love the fact that I can decide what I want to do and when I want to do it. And then there are […]