On Friday I made a cake and two pies for A’s and P’s birthday. The cake is a Thunder Cake, adapted from the children’s book Thunder Cake, by Patricia Polacco. When B was little, we read the book and tried out the recipe. I’m not a very good cake baker, and this [...]
Posts Tagged ‘trash’
Cake, pie, throwing things away
Posted in plastic and its relatives, random blab, recipes, tagged plastic, thunder cake, trash on September 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
What I brought home
Posted in plastic and its relatives, tagged cat litter, shopping, trash on September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Surprisingly, I haven’t been buying much at the grocery store. Maybe that’s just because sometimes I feel I have to stock up, even when we have plenty of food.
I tend to look at the trash we generate, without necessarily looking at what I bring into the house. A couple of days ago I brought in:
Two [...]
Throwing things away
Posted in random blab, tagged recycling, trash on November 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m lazy. Willie had brought home a big box full of leftover Wheatfields pasty items after he worked on Saturday. He worked at Wheatfields from January to August, and although he loves the stuff, he’s also sick of it. So he didn’t eat any. I’m not sick of it, so I ate [...]
Thanksgiving trash
Posted in plastic and its relatives, random blab, tagged plastic, recycling, thanksgiving, trash, waste on November 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The turkey came from a nearby farm, in a plastic bag. Coulda been worse.
The green beans came in a plastic bag from the grocery store, which wasn’t reusable.
The potatoes came in a plastic bag with holes in it, which wasn’t reusable. I should have bought them in bulk and bagged them myself in [...]
