animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

peppers

I have found pepper nirvana and it is called ground chipotle pepper. It makes everything taste good. Especially bean dips. This evening, Brian and I consumed a recipe of hummus containing some of the aforementioned ingredient. Any time Brian eats a half a recipe of bean dip, you know it’s …

feeling saucy

Steve gave me a bunch of tomatoes this week so I whipped up a batch of marinara this evening. This marinara was totally organic–it consisted of tomatoes, from both my garden and Steve’s, along with onions, garlic, basil, and oregano that I grew. It came out quite tasty. Brian helped …

fruitful day

Today started off with a picnic at Shawnee State Park. We had some lunch and then Brian and Jake hit the water. I’m not much of a swimmer to begin with (let alone when water that fish are actively pooping in is involved) so I sat under a tree and …

wine & computers

Last night, I took a break from the disaster which is Brian’s laptop and we bottled two batches of wine–a Chardonnay/Viognier mix and a Riesling. The Riesling was superb! I pretty much stuck to it all evening, but the Chardonnay/Viognier was pretty good, too. I’m looking forward to drinking it …