Whipped Out

From Jaci Burton, who is gonna get one hell of a manicure in Orlando, I think.
Time for the June garden update.
My garden is an alien thing. It’s freakin’ huge. We’ve already decided to expand it for next year, because between the potatoes, the ginormous tomato plants and the cucumber plant, they’re taking over the entire [...]

Jaci Burton and I are still facing off in the Garden Off (Up for grabs: manicures at RWA Nationals), and here’s my May 2010 update. Only… not all my plants are here yet. I think it’s too cold yet for me to plant some of them so the nursery hasn’t shipped them. But here’s an [...]

In our May reports in the Garden Off, Renae reports a difficult April with epic huge plants to show for it.
Everything that can have gone wrong so far has, including getting in trouble with the landlord for using the hose, running out of money for potting soil, rain every weekend, a little black fly [...]

Behold, a Garden-Off update from Alison Kent from deep in the mists of somewhere. Her post blows my mind: my tomato plants are barely 2′ high!! And she’s got, like, a misty forest of tomatoes!
It’s supposed to be stormy tomorrow so I took May 1st pictures tonight. We’ve got the one vine that started about [...]

So, it’s time for garden updates from Jaci, me, and all of you who are playing along at home. Right now my garden is being smacked down by a hella rainstorm, but things are be-yoooo-tiful in Oklahoma, judging by Jaci’s pictures. From Jaci:
And how’s my garden project doing? Pretty damn good, surprisingly. Here it was [...]

From Jaci Burton: it’s in! It’s in! (That’s what she said.)
Garden is in and operating. Well, I don’t know if it’s operating, but it’s in. Photo attached. Attack dogs patrolling the perimeter. If I can get them all corralled in one place at the same time (no easy feat with 5 dogs who never listen) [...]

This past week I spent at a conference in New York. I didn’t cook anything, nor did I make much aside from a lot of conversation, a lot of noise at a live band karaoke, and two PowerPoint presentations. The week prior, however, I was up to my ass in creativity but I can’t show [...]

When we renovated our kitchen two years ago, we carved out part of the hill behind our house and added a terraced wall. We’re still trying to figure out the best way to fill it with plants, and this year, I am getting serious about it. Last spring and summer I traveled so much doing [...]

One of us whipper-outers is about to embark on mild kitchen rehab, and I thought this week I’d share some pics of the before and after of The Kitchen Reno That Never Ended. I didn’t do the work myself- we had a contractor who didn’t like to wear underwear. Please do not ask me how [...]

It’s Hanukkah, the Festival of Light, and Fried Foods. No, really. One of the ways in which Jewish folks commemorate Hanukkah is to eat foods fried in oil, like sufganiyot (jelly-filled donuts) and latkes (potato pancakes). Only one problem with that for me: I really, really don’t like latkes. Latkes made the traditional way with [...]