bring joy

{MM} 4.29.13

Hmmm, a few personal highlights from last week:

We planted our garden (in rubber maid containers!).
I’ve started practicing the piano again. I swear “this time” I’m going finally stick with it.
I re-read A River Runs Through It.
Look, I get Norman Mclean is not anywhere near veg friendly. I mean, the whole novella is about fly fishing. But his writing is soothing & beautiful. (I wish he had written more.) And though it goes into way more detail than I would ever care to know about fly fishing, the story is really about his relationship with his brother (I admit, it’s even more fun to read when I have the image of Brad Pitt as Paul) & his dad.

The last lines of the story are the best:

Eventually, all things merge into one, & a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s...

20 minute meal: gluten-free fettucini+ pine nuts

main dish, simple cooking

You may think, based on all the dessert posts I have on the blog, that all I eat is laced with some form of sugar or another.

While a good scoop of vanilla ice cream served with something warm/sweet/carby (apple crisp, say), most of what we eat is rather simple (boring?). I’m serious when I say we eat beans & rice, a lot.

And when April (& other readers), have commented that they’d like to see more recipes, particularly frugal simple ones, I’m a little sheepish.

It’s hard for me to think that my humble bean soups can compete with what’s now in vogue in the online food blogosphere.

Truth be told, I don’t fancy myself much of a recipe developer these days.

We’ve had family in town for the last week, & before that, it was the stomach bug, before that more house guests. And then...

{MM} 4.15.2013

marvelous mondays

You guys!

The world wide web blows my mind. There are just so many good, good things out there.

Here are some of my fave tidbits I’ve been dying to share with you.

♥ My sassy, witty (& gorgeous) friend Jen (a friend I met my freshman year at an itty bitty college nestled in the hills of Virginia), writes a smashing pro-Disney princess argument on her blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

I’m sure that Snow White has many amiable qualities (not the least of which is that her Prince rides a horse) but her voice annoys the ever loving daylights out of me so we will skip her…Rapunzel and Jasmine both fell in love with a poor man on the run from the law. Aurora’s true love was enough to wake her from a coma and Tiana worked her buns off, only to realize that nothing can be more fulfilling than...