Seed catalogs – Check Favorite Gardening books – Check and Check Farmer’s Almanac – Check Cute notebook for garden notes – Check Post-it flags for marking pages – Check Highlighter – Check Newly resolved determination that this year I will give the garden my full attention and not peter out half-way through and forget to [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Getting back on the sewing horse
School started this week and that usually means that I drop everything else I am doing or want to do because my brain can only handle focusing on one thing at a time. However, last semester was really stressful and it made me realize that I needed to keep these things, to help me focus [...]
Black-Pepper Cheesecake
I saw a segment forever ago on Martha with Marcus Samuelsson where he made a Black-Pepper Cheesecake. I was instantly intrigued and have been wanting to try it for some time now. Lulu seemed to enjoy it, but I have to say that I was underwhelmed. The recipe has you blanch and drain the peppercorns [...]


