I’m making Eccles cakes today. I first had these when I worked at a dry cleaner’s in Providence in my late teens. My boss brought them in from a Portuguese bakery near her house. I always thought they were Portuguese in spite of the English-sounding name, but they’re not.
A and B love these sweet and [...]
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Eccles cakes
Posted in food, plastic and its relatives, recipes on October 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Tonight’s plastic
Posted in food, plastic and its relatives on October 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Oh, we had a great dinner tonight, a repeat I had with my friend Egghead Jr. on Sunday. Fresh pasta with the last batch of cherry tomatoes from the garden, olives, garlic (also from the garden), olive oil, and parmesan. AND one giant shiitake mushroom from the log I gave A for Christmas last year. [...]
Picnic and ballpark plastic
Posted in plastic and its relatives on July 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A sickening piece of news and a request for action
Posted in plastic and its relatives on June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I just learned that searchers looking for Air France flight 447 off the coast of Brazil kept finding what they thought was debris from the plane but was instead plastic garbage. Read the CNN article.
The 24th International Coastal Cleanup is set for September 19, 2009. It’s sponsored by the Ocean Conservancy. Sign up! It [...]
Plastic update
Posted in plastic and its relatives on June 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Amazing. We haven’t acquired any new plastic in at least four days.
Plastic collection
Posted in plastic and its relatives on June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been taking pictures of any plastic I’m acquiring each day. Some gets reused, some has to be thrown away. We’re on a road trip at the moment, which skews this experiment slightly. If I were home, I’d be acquiring fewer plastic lids and water bottles, but more packaging.
I’m starting to carry small paper bags [...]
Put September 19 on your calendar for ocean cleanup
Posted in important stuff, plastic and its relatives on March 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My mother forwarded an email to me from the Ocean Conservancy about the International Coastal Cleanup on September 19. They’re calling for volunteers everywhere to clean up the world’s oceans and waterways. Those italics in the last sentence are mine.
My first thought when I read the email was “Hmm, maybe I should go visit back [...]
Responsible entertaining
Posted in plastic and its relatives, random blab, tagged recycling, styrofoam on February 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last night my sister Priscilla did a house concert here. She told Queen Berta and King Pippin. It’s an excellent story, and she told it very well. We had about 30 people here hanging on her every word. I can’t be objective, because she’s my wonderful sister, but everyone appeared to enjoy it very much.
We [...]
Microfiber
Posted in plastic and its relatives on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The yellow microfiber tablecloth is showing its age. Grease stains are increasingly hard to remove. I’ve noticed in the past that synthetic fabrics sometimes embrace greasy stains like family members (“I’m petroleum, myself. Are we related?”)
Looking at it last night, I suddenly realized that although I’m death on plastic junk, I’ve never given microfiber anything [...]
The Annual Christmas Tree Dilemma
Posted in plastic and its relatives, random blab on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For years I’ve struggled with what to do about a Christmas tree. A is Jewish, so this is my dilemma to work out on my own.
Before B was born, I had a sorry-looking Norfolk Island pine that I nursed along for years so I could drape it with beads and little ornaments for Christmas. After [...]
