by CJ | Dec 31, 2010 | Journal
Closed Circle has been up for a year, and is the home of new and old books, and has managed to do new things and drive us all insane and keep us all sane in alternation. We are writing, all of us, which is good! We are planning new things, which is good! We are...
by CJ | Dec 30, 2010 | Journal
It’s pretty out there. Gorgeous. The snow was very wet, and the air absolutely still for most of the snowfall, so the snow is an inch thick on every single twig of the tallest trees, against an absolutely brilliant blue sky. I love it.
by CJ | Dec 29, 2010 | Journal
Actually, outside of the fact it’s very wet, heavy snow, not so bad, but it’s snowed since last evening, it’s weighing down trees, and there’s blizzard conditions in the Palouse, where the wind comes sweeping down the valleys with considerable...
by CJ | Dec 29, 2010 | Journal
Jane and I both gained back 6 lbs, over the 3 days of Christmas, and have one week to trim up before New Year’s. I’ve observed that there’s weight gain, and then there’s ‘binge weight gain’, —and if you don’t let B turn...
by CJ | Dec 29, 2010 | Journal
Jane and I both gained back 6 lbs, over the 3 days of Christmas, and have one week to trim up before New Year’s. I’ve observed that there’s weight gain, and then there’s ‘binge weight gain’, —and if you don’t let B turn...
by CJ | Dec 26, 2010 | Journal
Including ones of me in the early morning. Shudder. BUT they look better than some circling the interwebs. Mine was a culinary Christmas: Jane got me a breadmaker and a ceramic knife (and a knife sharpener to tackle our knife set), and I got Jane some cosmetics and a...
by CJ | Dec 24, 2010 | Journal
…well, almost. I’d forgotten to buy sugar and milk, but found some sugar at home; and the powdered milk had gone bad so I subbed powdered buttermilk (at 1/3 cup of this ingredient it’s not that critical a sub)— The consistency is that of one...
by CJ | Dec 23, 2010 | Journal
…went out to get stuff for Grandma Van’s Cake, and of all things forgot the milk! I can used dried milk. It was a zoo out there, people wandering around with a glazed look, frantically snatching the last strange stuffed animal or game, and me, I’m...
by CJ | Dec 23, 2010 | Journal
The origin of the cake recipe…could be my great-gran or even great-great-gran. If it was great-gran, it was a lady named Missouri Duff; and if it was great-great-gran it was Rebecca Morton, of the Mortons and Cages of Cages’ Bend, Tennessee. Cages’...
by CJ | Dec 22, 2010 | Journal
And I’ll give the how-to as well as the measurements to enable people who have NEVER made a cake from scratch to do this one: Grandma Van’s Spice Cake You will need a medium to small sheet-cake pan. And an oven. A mixing bowl. A spatula is nice. And a 2...
by CJ | Dec 19, 2010 | Journal
Lynn came up with an idea. This is a good thing. We need to redevelop our working together and develop an ongoing feature on CC. You’re going to get the benefit of it. We’re going to do what all three of us know quite well: a shared universe for us....
by CJ | Dec 18, 2010 | Journal
…have I weighed less. The diet we’ve been on since September (REAL South Beach, meaning you-cook-it) is wonderful. As Jane says, dessert every evening lets us go to a birthday party and resist cake, by telling ourselves, “we get dessert this evening,...
