Monday fun with a springform pan.

I recently bought a new cookbook. Most of the time I experiment or use recipes from the internet, since sites like Epicurious rock my world with all of their free and gorgeous recipes. I saw this cookbook in my local bookstore last year, and have been drooling over it...

Liesl: Still lovely.

I don’t repeat a lot of knitting patterns, other than for the purpose of testing my own pattern making skills. Usually I quickly become enamored with something else and move on. Most of the time I find it hard to be monogamous to one pattern at a time, but...

Well, hello 2012.

My year started out in a pretty delightful way. While I was home on New Year’s Eve quite early (due to some massive fatigue), Matt managed to talk me into some hiking on the next day. He woke up energized and excited around 7:30. I was still grumbling and...

November Sunday Bread Pudding

I don’t normally attempt to A) make sure I write recipes down or B) share them with the world, but what the heck. I love making bread pudding and I thought I would share this pumpkin-laden dish in the spirit of the pumpkin-laden upcoming holidays. We’ve...

Bad to the bone

Dear Reader, I hope you weren’t expecting knitting content…I have knit soooooo many things that haven’t made it to the picture/blog stage.  I might as well give up on some of them at this point.  School is trying to kick my butt, and I’m trying...

Teach me!

I would really like to put together a post about great knitting reference books.  The Knitter’s Handbook by Montse Stanley is often mentioned in blogs, and Elizabeth Zimmerman is a queen of good knitting instruction, but what about the other gems?  I’m...