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When My Guy and I first started dating he suffered from something I have come to refer to as Bachelor-Pantry Syndrome. What, you may ask, is this? It is a condition in which, while the Bachelor’s Pantry may not be bare, exactly, the food items that are present can, in no discernible way, be put together into [...] “Two things can make me feel rich as winter approaches: a big pile of dry firewood and a garden cart heaped with winter squash.”—Edward Smith, The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible I wholeheartedly agree. Well, except for the firewood thing, as I live in an area with mild winters and (sigh) do not yet own the woodburning stove I’ve [...] Shhh, quiet. What’s that sound? Do you hear it? Oh, wait. That’s just you over there, snickering at my book choices. And maybe throwing up in your mouth a little bit. If I weren’t so far behind in my Book-A-Week-Challenge, I would maybe not admit to having read this. Because I have literary standards, you know. But let’s not look [...] I used to hate cilantro. If a recipe called for it I usually didn’t use it, or used way less than was called for. The leftover cilantro would sit, languishing in my refrigerator until it turned slimy and I threw it on top of the compost pile. But then, slowly, my tastebuds came around. It started small. [...] Lily is a digger. She feels the earth with her feet; she senses voles and scrabbles furiously at the dirt, sticking her nose deep into the soil. And she has also tunneled her way underneath the poplar stump, so far that she literally disappears. Pardon my ass, but I'm very busy digging. This is where she hides from [...] Have you ever had sunflower-seed butter? No? Then I will tell you, it is perhaps the most delicious source of protein you never knew existed. I was introduced to it by a coworker who was introduced to it on a plane, during that brief overlap of time when the airlines still served complimentary snacks but when [...]
This was a good book. But not a great one. It also had lots of pages! So! Many! Pages! I thought I would never finish. And, to be honest, most of the time I was reading it the only reason I felt compelled to continue reading it was to [...] |
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