Time for my annual reckoning — in question form — of the year that was. This is my sixth year for this list — wow! really?
What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before?
Attended a presidential inauguration, toured around the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, read a book in the New York Public Library [...]
My only tradition for Easter Sunday is to make a rogan josh, and this year I found this particularly tasty recipe.
Happy Curry Day!
–lori
Happy New Year! Before 2009 gets too far underway, time to take an annual look back at the year that was by answering a few questions with this handy meme:
What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?
Saw the Decemberists in concert, hired someone, watched fireworks from a boat, installed kitchen cabinets.
Did you [...]
After stuffing his presidential cabinet full of scientists, economists, political experts, and Nobel Prize-winners (and in record time, too) Barack Obama is now settling his brains for a long winter’s nap.
A new group of FOBs (Friends of Barack) have gathered at an oceanfront estate in Hawaii for a ten-day Christmas vaycay. No word on whether [...]
I’m not sure why parents believe that plopping their toddler onto the lap of a large, hairy stranger is a recipe for holiday magic. On the contrary, based on the Sun Sentinel newspaper’s ability to put together an entire gallery of “Scared of Santa” photos every year, we can only conclude one thing: Santa is [...]
Thanksgiving jelly
Ruby-red ring-rimmed relish
Who needs a turkey?
Fresh from your tin can
Your thin, round slices shimmer
In your crystal dish.
Tangy solid sauce –
You are no mere condiment.
Eat you with a spoon.
PS — Check out this cool photostream for more images of food that takes the shape of its container.
–lori
It was a lot quieter at the house this year, which is odd because the weather was tailor made for trick-or-treating. Our house doesn’t get much Halloween love to begin with, being located uphill from the main drag and across the street from a hospital. Oh well, more miniature Clark bars for me I guess.
Princesses [...]
