The Barefoot Kitchen Witch

Three Sisters Update

No, this slightly crooked picture has nothing to do with the garden.  I’ll show you those pictures in a moment.  I couldn’t decide if I wanted to put the most recent “Three Sisters” picture up first, or the one from the week prior.  So, since trying to decide would have taken forever, I put up this picture instead.  It’s part of the view from one corner of my kitchen after I’d rearranged those three pieces of furniture there – the pie safe (you can only see the back; the pegboard is the back of the pie safe), and two work table/island things.  Before, the pie safe would have been facing you (if you are the one looking through the lens in the image above).  The other day I rearranged them.

Found

As I mentioned in the last post, I’ve been reorganizing and rearranging my work area in the basement.

It’s where my laptop usually hangs out, along with all my sewing stuff and jewelry-making stuff. 

Lots of stuff.

Softie is Not Amused

“What the heck are you doing to my playground?”

Yesterday I needed to MOVE stuff. 

I go through periods of LOVING the kitchen, loving food, loving experimenting with cooking and baking, and writing about it and photographing it…

And then I hate it.

Okay, not hate.  That’s too strong a word.  But I get burnt out a bit and need to do something ELSE.

De-Cluttering the Laptop: A Girl and Her Noble Steed

I'm moving image files to an external hard drive, and I figured I'd share...

These were taken in May of this year.  Julia had requested and received a "brown horse head on a stick" for her birthday.

 

I think she's named it "Brown" or "Brownie" or maybe "White Spot."  Or something entirely different.  I've lost track.

Anyway, not only is the horse an accomplished steeplechase competitor, but it's also got a military background.

The De-Cluttering Series

By the way -

I'm going through all the image files (well, not ALL of them - I wouldn't have time to type) and pulling out the ones that were obviously intended to become part of a post, and then, for whatever reason, didn't.  There they've been sitting, these little files, all over my computer desktop, because I don't want to just get rid of them.  They deserve their moment in the internet sun, darn it!

So that's what this "De-Cluttering" stuff is all about.

In case you were wondering.

You may now go about your business.

De-Cluttering - Scratchy and The Fly

Well look at this...here's a whole series of shots I took back in MARCH, people.  MARCH.  At least it was March of this year, but still. 

I haven't put up any cat pictures lately, have I?  They're all doing fine, even Blur (the 18-year-old).  Scratchy is HUGE.  He's this big mostly-white behemoth of a cat who loves to curl up on the darkest chair in the living room (the better to leave visible cat hairs) and on the very comfy office chair in the computer room.

He is very sweet and affectionate, but still doesn't like to be picked up.  Snuggling is done on his terms or not at all.

He's also still scratchy. 

De-Cluttering - Variations on Scallion Pancakes

Back in May I'd put up a post about Scallion Pancakes - specifically, Scallion and Red Onion Pancakes, which seemed to go over pretty well. 

Over the summer I've made scallion pancakes a few more times (including yesterday), and at one point I even took pictures, planning to write about the variations I did that day.

And I never wrote the post.  I had the pictures - well most of them.  I just never did that "ta-da!" picture of the finished dish.  

Anyway, with this batch I got as far as cooking a couple in the oiled pan - and that was it.  Once they got going I must have put the camera down so I could fry them up, place on a towel to drain, fry more, and get dinner on the table. 

That's the reality around here - we eat.