Bread

Bread recipe… for Nicole especially…
It *was* the yeast. I have two different oat wheat recipes, and for some reason I think the one I brought over for Thanksgiving was a combination of the two. Try this, and see what happens.
1 cup milk
3 T honey
1 c white flour
1 c whole wheat flour
1 c oats
1 1/4 t [...]

Note to the bread fans…

….tried to recreate the honey oat wheat bread. didn't come out right. I
think the yeast I'm using is old.
however, i did something splendid with the second loaf, knowing the the
yeast was old: I made sandwich rolls out of them, and they came out so
perfect that anyone in the DC-Philly corridor who wants some can have [...]

Peace for Breakfast

I came home last night from the grocery store with a bagful or four of food, in an effort to push myself toward a more mindful way of eating. One of the things I picked up was a Maple Pecan cereal from these folks:
Peace Cereal - The organic breakfast cereal dedicated to peace
I joked to [...]

Food….

I've just concocted something that is something of a mix of dal, yemiser w'et, and chili.
All hail the weird Helen spice rack and lots of things in the pantry/produce bin to use up.
It has…
potatoes..
lentils…
tomatos…
jalapenos…
green bell peppers…
berbere…
ginger…
chili powder…
ancho chile pepper…
onions…
garlic…
and other various spicy spices…..
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Light Blazes

The devotional book in which I am published has a companion website, http://alightblazes.blogspot.com/ — you can follow along with the lectionary and devotionals there.
Right now, there's the moving foreword, and a number of “blurbs” along the right-hand side.
My copy should arrive any day now. I'm excited.
Happy Thanksgiving, all. I was going to [...]

Cooking….

….Brunswick Stew!
It's missing something, and I don't know what. I mean, Brunswick is really the kind of stew that you can make however you want, seeing as Virgina and Georgia fight over custody of it, as long as it has tomatoes, corn, and baby limas or okra, but for the life of me I can't [...]

Foodage.

Hi. I'm craving pizza.
But I should mention I had this incredible couscous dish tonight at a potluck, and, having no idea who brought it, I don't know who to ask where they got it. (No comments from the peanut gallery on us bringing bought foods to a potluck. It's northern Virginia.)
Grumble. Can anything else go [...]

My 35th birthday party

Left row: Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou, Jane — (help me someone?), Sarah Dylan Breuer, Rev. Will Scott.
Right row: Jo Guldi, Rev. Gawain de Leeuw, and Dean.

where am I, you wonder? All the pictures came out kind of fuzzy. Probably all the divine interference going on. But here's one of me the next day, when [...]

We thought it was dead.

We bought this tomato plant shortly after moving in to our new place in Fairfax. It was kind of a consolation prize; I'd originally bought DH seed packets for Valentine's Day, thinking this more productive than most traditional Valentine's Day presents. And it would have been, but we weren't ready to handle seed germination. So [...]

oh yeah

negative energy aside, i made fish and chips tonight. with beer batter. equal parts flour and corn meal, pour in ale. now that's cooking.
big part of me says open a pub, helcat.

Sammiches

I think the only way these grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches would get any better is if I made the bread.

One of the best things about being in love…

…is walking hand in hand to the grocery store to fetch fresh fixins for homemade salsa, and while you're waiting in line to check out, he magically appears with a half gallon of a flavor of ice cream you can actually eat responsibly.