Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Anna and Kristina's Grocery Bag

i have a confession to make.....i LOVE cookbooks! not the ones from the local church ladies...although i do have some of those. no....i HAVE to buy the ones authored by chefs from famous restaurants or something quirky i've seen on a food blog.

i've got so many....The Pleasures of Cooking For One by Judith Jones...Cooking With Shelburne Farms by Melissa Pasanen...Eggs by Michael Roux...Jamie Olivers...Jacque Pepins....Marthas... well....you get the picture.

i'm a weekend cook...not so much thru the week. cooking makes me happy....i "sing" while i cook (i use that term very loosely!) but...another big secret....i have more failures than successes with my cooking attempts. so when i happened upon a show on the OWN channel about two "wanna be" chefs who try out recipes from some of the top cookbooks and then serve their meal to a real chef i felt right at home. their attempts mirror a lot of mine and i laugh my way thru the shows.

Anna and Kristina....i think we may have all fallen off the same turnip truck......


Monday, June 27, 2011

to ride upon the wind...

"faeries...come take me out of this dull world

for i would ride with you upon the wind...

run on the top of the disheveled tide...

and dance upon the mountains like a flame..."


~william butler yeats

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Stop.....



Wednesday, June 22, 2011

oh my........


oh my......

Sunday, June 19, 2011

june 19...

happy fathers day

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

a mystic circle

“there is a magic in that little world…
home…
it is a mystic circle
that surrounds comforts and virtues
never known beyond
its hallowed limits…”

~robert southey


speaking of magic....i can make things disappear...

especially if it's got a lot of butter and sugar in it...

Thursday, June 9, 2011

waiting for signs.......




"i used to wait for a sign...she said


before i did anything.


then one night i had a dream


and an angel in striped tights


came to me and said


you can start any time now...


then i asked 'is this a sign'...


the angel started laughing


and i woke up.


now i think the whole world


is filled with signs...


but if there's no laughter...


i know they're not


for me...."




~story of the day


by story people


psssst.....

i'm lauGhing that i left out the G......


Sunday, June 5, 2011

a thief named senescence.....



who are you...

always trying to glimpse into

my world

from your throne

in the mirror

you watch me

with my own eyes....

voyeur

what have you done

with

me

where am

i

do i live beneath the sagging skin

the grey hair

i must be in there

somewhere

or have you

stolen

my

eyes

who

are

you



Saturday, June 4, 2011

fairy fireworks

don't you think dill looks like fairy fireworks.....
you can almost hear a minuscule... soaring... whistle...

a soft pop.....

as a shower of buttery sparks

rains down on the wee folk...

the tinkle of a tiny...collective... cheer

floating softly through this

sultry

summer

evening....