Tagged: mitzy

oh, the life of a cat: diy outdoor lounge for a spoiled beast

How about this weather, Midwest? It’s been gorgeous, although the drought has put a damper on things a bit (fortunately it gave us a nice big storm today). Our garden has been soaking up the summer sun and giving us outrageous amounts of zucchini, a few handfuls of edamame, a nice crop of watermelon radishes, countless herbs, and around 20 not-yet-ripe-but-starting-to-look-delicious tomatoes. Between the garden’s generous production and our Bounty Box subscription (a local grocer, the Root Cellar, provides us with a big box of local and seasonal produce every week), we haven’t needed much else in the way of [...]

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in defense of vanilla

I’m going to be up from with you here: I’m not one of those women who goes insane for chocolate. It isn’t, of course, that I don’t like chocolate. I do. It’s pretty difficult not to like, especially when it’s nice and dark and possibly studded with sea salt or crystallized ginger. Or baked into an impossibly dense Baked brownie, the best brownie I have ever had (we’ll discuss that later). The thing is, I just feel like there are so many other flavors in the world. Who wants to eat the same old chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and [...]

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