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Family Circle.

Seemingly, my grandmother saved everything. We always knew she was a bit of a pack rat. Remember when I found the untouched, still-in-plastic Sunbeam mixer? I’ve also got some of her vintage jadeite in perfect condition. So we knew she liked to keep things, and she definitely was the queen of saving things, and some [...]


December 03, 2011

I’m going bananas.

I hope all you Americans had a lovely Thanksgiving, and also that you remembered not only our troops who couldn’t be home for the holiday but also remembered the real Americans, the Native Americans, that were treated so poorly & unfairly by our original settlers (& their ancestors). And not to be a total wet [...]


November 25, 2011

Chinese Apple-sauce.

Is it still appropriate (or P.C.) to call pomegranates Chinese Apples? Probably not. I’m not very “P.C.” anyway. I was politically incorrect before Bill Maher (well not really, actually, since he’s older than I, but you catch my drift). At any rate, it’s a pretty cute name for pomegranate sauce, which is what this is. [...]


November 15, 2011

Bedknobs & broomsticks & caramel apples.

I loved the movie Bedknobs & Broomsticks when I was little. I remember watching it on VHS (some of you youngins might not remember such a device) as a wee little girl. Some would say it’s a Mary Poppins rip-off, and I can understand that, but I think it was pretty cute in its own [...]


October 20, 2011

Fiendish figs.

Before I get started with fiendish figs, let me say that my fiendish feline is extremely excited. See, because at this time of year everyone hangs up cardboard cut-outs or pictures of black cats, or has light up black cat figurines, and because stores are selling stuffed black cats & black cat costumes, etc, she [...]


October 11, 2011