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I’m only now getting the chance to post this picture, that’s my Moms wearing the soft & fluffy purple scarf that I knitted for her birthday (which was actually in January… so yeah, I’m a little behind). It was very simple, done all in purl stitch, with big guage (#17) needles, and finished all in [...]

I’ve been dabbling in the pie arts for, geesh, about 5 or so years now, I guess, but I only recently realized that I’d never made a quiche. This is a terrible terrible oversight on my part, considering quiche really is the perfect pie, when you consider it’s good for a meal any time of [...]

howard’s haiku today. it’s excellent — especially if, like me, you’re coming down from your own culinary disaster(s)…

I’ve been making chocolate fudge for a few years, and it usually turns out pretty good. But every year I get a type of amnesia that makes me forget all of my fudge troubles from the previous year. So, despite it’s shortcomings, I’ve been with one fudge recipe, for better or for worse, for about [...]

Over the past week, the Little Mister and I have been enjoying our annual holiday fudge-making extravaganza. Usually, the “extravaganza” consists of a few batches of chocolate fudge, some with nuts, some without, nothing too crazy or extravagant. But this year, we went wild and decided to throw pumpkin fudge and peanut butter fudge into [...]

…actually, it’s knitting project #2, if you count the default potholder I made in my first outting… but… whatever… semantics. The point is, after about a month of using knitting as an excuse to watch reruns of Dawson’s Creek, I’ve got this rad little stripey scarf. And it’s totally unisex. It looks good on Molly, [...]

Welcome, one and all, to my brand new website. After allowing my old site and blog to flounder, I’ve decided to hop back in the saddle and take the internets by storm (employing as many puns & cliches as possible in the process). Some folks may be familiar with PoetryClass, an old blog that I’ve [...]