Weekend Kat Blogging: A Happy Mother’s Day

It was a beautiful today.
The sun was bright; it was a cool seventy-one degrees, and there was a gentle breeze.
A perfect day for gardening.
Zak and I got up (Morganna was still at a campout at our friend Torquil’s place) with Kat, and decided to go pick up a few herb plants and […]

Creating Your Own Foolproof Chinese Stir Fry Step Four: The Supporting Ingredients

We are in the home stretch now. This is the final trio of ingredients necessary to make a simple Chinese stir fry, and they are really basic.
They are so basic that when you eat the your stir fried dish, you likely will not even think about them being there. But, they are there, just […]

Creating Your Own Foolproof Chinese Stir-Fry–Step Three: The Condiments

What exactly is a condiment?
In the context of this series of posts on creating your own simple Chinese stir fried dishes, a condiment is a bottled or jarred liquid or paste that is used in fairly small amounts to enhance the natural flavors of the main ingredients of the dish without overpowering them.
If your […]

Spreading the Love: Some Links to Share

When I get a chance to run about the net (usually on those days when Kat insists that she must nurse for hours on end), in my virtual travels, I often find new sites to peruse.
And today, I decided I wanted to share some with you, because they are really cool, and I think y’all […]

Asparagus with Panch Phoron

Asparagus is one of those seasonal vegetables that we make gluttons of ourselves with when it is in season, until the point that we are nearly tired of it when it is gone.
I say nearly tired, because I don’t think that I could get truly weary of asparagus. It is just so fresh and […]