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,...
by CJ | Dec 18, 2010 | Journal
BabylonianMathC2 The Tigris-Euphrates region has no few ‘interesting’ developments: the use of tiles, of brick…it would remain for Mohenjo-Daro over on the Indus to do ‘standardized brick,’ [they were about 2500 BC]—which makes...
by CJ | Dec 17, 2010 | Journal
The link to the new Blood Red Moon cover is up, and it’s, shall we say, hot.
by CJ | Dec 17, 2010 | Journal
The link to the new Blood Red Moon cover is up, and it’s, shall we say, hot.
by CJ | Dec 16, 2010 | Journal
The return of wolves to the wild has made a few homeowners uneasy: a few people checking mailboxes in remote areas have gotten a surprise, and a certain neighborhood had a catfit when it found wolf tracks around the school bus stop —but hey, you hack a hole in...
by CJ | Dec 14, 2010 | Journal
The Pineapple Express is tropical rain, sweeping up from Hawaii. This morning we’re being deluged in sheets and waves, the sort of thing you normally see in the near-tropic South, on the Gulf, and this end of Washington is already having flooding from the sudden...
