For lunch today, I prepared a tuna recipe out of a British cookbook. It required "4 cans of tuna steak". I have no idea how much tuna is in four British cans of tuna steak. Sometimes, on the internet, I find American recipes with "2 sticks of butter" or, more commonly, "3/4 cup butter". Until … Continue reading Ideas on The Rocks
In recent months, I have avoided using "Google" as my search engine because I don't like how it tracks me and targets me with advertisements and splashes my phone's newsfeed with vaguely related topics. So I have been using Duck Duck Go. It's good but has its limitations. For example, I can't find the website … Continue reading I Love Mianbao the Way a Mouse Loves Rice…
It rained gloriously most of the morning. We had the windows open to let in the lovely sound and the green smells. Soon after lunch, P proclaimed it too cold to have the windows open. Now, my six year old is lying on a sheepskin rug on a wooden chest in the sun. The … Continue reading A Friday that is Good
The days are like a concertina - stretching and collapsing in unpredictable time warps. Sometimes I feel myself in the crush of it - the rush of home schooling and meal preparation and a house that is never clean. And other times I look behind me and can't tell if we had that meal yesterday … Continue reading Yeaster Bunnies
Out of the Cave 