Author Archives: Lindsay
Book Review: Yogurt by Janet Fletcher
As a Microbiologist, I am a big fan of growing stuff. I am not green fingered, I will kill any plants that you might place in my care. I also don’t drink, so making my own beer or wine holds no allure. But I did keep going my own sourdough starter for many years, nourishing […]
Beach Brian.
May was such a crazy month! We took a trip back home to the UK for a week at the beginning for one of my best friend’s weddings, then crazy busy work with drama drama drama all over the place… then another week off for a surprise (to me) trip to Florida to (among other […]
Book Review: Fika by Anna Brones and Johanna Kindvall
Until I moved to the US, most of my exposure to Swedish food came from IKEA, much like I imagine it does for most people. But our relocation agent that helped us find a place to live and do battle with Social Security and the DMV is Swedish, and invited us round to her house […]
You can’t have a party without Party Rings.
This afternoon I had a little baking session. This little baking and decorating session was inspired by a quick little cross stitch project I completed this week. This was from the June 2013 issue of CrossStitcher Magazine, bookmarked (literally) for (2) years and not yet tackled! On our recent trip home for a wedding we […]
Book Review: A Modern Way to Eat by Anna Jones
As a vegetarian of 20+ years, and *ahem* cookbook hoarder of 10+ years, I already own quite a few Vegetarian cookbooks. What drew me to pick this one was that it seemed to be similar in style to another series of vegetarian cook books that I like by Heidi Swanson. The book itself is beautiful […]
National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
We are just coming to the end of my first Medical Laboratory Professionals Week! There is a National Pathology Week in the UK, but it is never really done anything about, at least not in any of the labs that I had worked in, so it was nice to embrace my (not so) inner nerd […]
Starfish Earrings
Or…… just how big is too big? We have had a visitor from England with us the last week or so, and this past weekend took a trip to Yosemite…. Yep. It was quite glorious. I bought a cute pair of turquoise earrings from the Ansel Adams Gallery, which kind of made me want to […]
Book Review: Cookie Love by Mindy Segal
I must have at least 50 (ok ok…. maybe more like 100) baking books on my bookshelves, but somehow I always feel like I need more. For my latest selection from Blogging for Books I decided to go for this one: I do love a cookie. Or as I would call them, a “biscuit”, because […]
Comox Trunks…
…or where I finally start making Mr M the Comox Trunks intended as a Christmas Present. Yup. I bought him the Comox Trunks kit for Christmas, but it is now April and I had yet to make him them! These were the first try, not made with the supplies in the kit, but with some […]
Book Review: Mastering Pasta by Marc Vetri
Two book reviews in a row, sorry friends. I am working on a rather large stitching project (sshhhhhhh! It’s a secret!), and have also been working on finally making Mr M his Christmas Comox Trunks…. but I haven’t finished them yet soooo……….. Here we go. I chose this book because having read the excerpt […]
Baking, Making, and Crafting 