I’m a Magpie
I should be making carrot soup. I found a recipe, I’ve got the ingredients — heck, I have enough carrots to fill a small village with carrot soup, thereby creating an underwater city of in-the-dark-seeing, orange inhabitants (our veggie box has been carrotacular these past few weeks).
But am I cooking? No. I’m eating goldfish and [...]
I simply can’t stop eating beer bread. And it’s so easy to make, and the house smells so good when it’s baking, and oh! is my life hard.
Here’s the recipe. I made it up (using half-remembered recipes from my youth and whatever I could find in the kitchen) Thanksgiving morning:
3 cups flour (this was the [...]
I'm a library assistant, writer, and perpetual graduate student living in San Francisco. Special skills include dog charming, brochure writing, slapdash cooking and long-winded nattering. I also enjoy watching the sunset's reflection in the tall buildings downtown.
For a while there, I taught classes on Classical literature, philosophy, and the history of religion at New College of California. I have an MA and an MFA in Writing, and started library school in the fall of 2009.