Something to think about

This isn’t FA or HAES, but it’s something to think about.  I recieved it in my email this morning, fact-checked it through Snopes.com, and thought I’d pass it on.
 
 
Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time [...]

As promised — Lemon Curd Recipe

I do apologize for not knowing anything other than US measurements for baking and cooking.
3 large lemons (or 6 small ones)
1 cup sugar
4 eggs + 1 extra egg yolk
10 tablespoons cold unsalted butter (and yes, it does have to be real butter, margarine doesn’t work)
3 tablespoons heavy cream
Zest one whole lemon.  Juice all the lemons and [...]

It’s really not about health

I’ve been seeing a few things lately on gastric banding.  Namely, a couple good posts over at Fat Lot of Good.  Specifically, these two posts. 
I personally know two people right now who’ve undergone gastric banding.  One person is my husband’s cousin, the other is a friend from the SCA.  Both people are great people, both [...]

The punchline is priceless

Hi, y’all.  Remember me?  I know, it’s been a while.
First I was busy, insanely busy, then when that finally ended, I took a small break.  But I’m back now.  Did you miss me?
I’m still busy (just not as insanely busy as before) and am about to leave the house (again), but I saw [...]

Blog Interrupted

I’ve been extremely busy in the past couple of weeks, trying to get a million and one things done. 
I’ve contacted a marketing agency to see about how to get more sales from my Etsy store.  Okay, how to get ANY sales from my Etsy store.  One of the things my agent has told me to [...]

I Am Not Afraid

Note:  This is not going to be one of the normal FA posts.  I had one all written out, which will post on Wednesday.
This may be triggering, has to do with rape, so it’s behind the cut.

Peach Census

In five days, I made:

26 jars of peach marmalade
11 jars of peach syrup
4 jars of peach “butter” (made with the solids left over from the syrup)
one batch peach cupcakes with cream cheese frosting (my first buttercream type YAY!)
4 bags of pie filling, frozen
3 bags chopped peaches to go in my morning yogurt

I still have enough [...]

Home made bread

I have 4 loaves of bread cooling on the counter.
Three are plain white. One has cinnamon added. All will be teh yum!
It’s really an accomplishment for me to make bread completely from scratch. Back when I was married to the ex- (15 years ago), I tried making bread. It would raise beautifully the first time, [...]

And now for some breaking news!

The CDC has just released their statistics from 2007, and have proven once again, that fat is indeed an epidemic that is going to kill us all!
 
Data in this report are based on death records comprising approximately 91 percent of the demographic file and 87 percent of the medical file for all deaths in the [...]

Just a quick post…

To say I might not be posting much in the next week or two.
The peaches are coming in this weekend.  Three 18 pound boxes of them.  So far, I only have two batches of marmalade, a few pies, and a batch of peach cupcakes with brown sugar cream cheese frosting.  But it’s only Tuesday, and the [...]