Jake and I are visiting my parents in LA right now. I drove down, and decided to take Hwy 101 instead of my usual Hwy 5. 101 is farm more interesting – the route meanders through actual towns, unlike the 5, which only passes huge farms and truck stops. Most importantly, 101 takes you to […]
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This week has been the Week Without Butter. The WWB wasn’t intentional – I’d just run out of it and kept forgetting to pick some up at the market. But I desperately wanted a sweet yesterday. I had biscuits, strawberries and whipping cream (I may run out of butter, but I’m rarely without a carton
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My parents drove up from LA a few weeks ago, and the first thing my mom said when she got here was “I want to go to the Alemany Farmers’ Market tomorrow.” I’d taken my mom once before, but she has a notoriously bad memory for names so I was shocked that she’d made such
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I watched all of Project Runway: Season Two to help me get out of my slump. In the second challenge, Emmett’s struggling to come up with a design when Nick tells him “Stop thinking. Just start cutting.” So that’s what I did, too. I sketched “nonsense” until I came up with something. And that something