teal. some sort of blue-green (or green-blue) would be lovely both with the colours of the house as well as those of the garden. (it would also look nice with the dog.)

on scrambled eggs (or any style eggs, for that matter)!

Speaking of apartment dwellers without their own plot of ground to garden, check out this blog about using borrowed urban land to grow a garden (Luke also writes a cooking blog):

A couple years ago I was at a well known steak restaurant near Florence, Italy (Florentine steak served by an owner who reads Dante aloud). My Italian friend told the owner that I did not eat meat,...

upon reading it for the *second* time this week just now, i was laughing so hard i thought i might wake up the neighbors' kids next door. very.damn.funny that dry british wit.

oops, *sorry* to introduce the totally incorrect amount of $320 (i've no idea where i got that from...late night brain fog i guess). it was indeed $240 - and i still say a bigger portion of ...

you're not being stubborn, laetitiae - the article was absurd. the main absurdity was spending 2/3 of the budget of a dinner party on cheap crap from kmart (quilt batting is synthetic and if your ...

here's a savory contribution: though i've only made it once (for a thanksgiving dinner that included non-turkey eating friends) it was *delicious* and simple - salt baked fish. the recipe is on the...

a train case - perfect to pack with all the essentials for a long journey by train.

fizzy, bubbly, plain seltzer is my usual drink of choice. occasionally i like to add a splash of juice, especially fresh concord grape juice that my parents make from the vine in their backyard. Mm...

while there may be charming elements of this incense burner, there are also slightly (to say the least) off-putting connotations of a german smoke house emiting real smoke.

beautiful bowls - seems like anything would be more delicious eaten out of them.

i would crank the "superfly" soundtrack.

kit #3 - a little stick of bamboo seems like a nice house blessing.

yowza. i have coveted the missoni towels at auto for quite some time now - they are supremely beautious!!

ha, ha, ha, GGrrrrrrrrrrr

the forest meeting the ocean; the light, the sky and the air.

dazzling. would be a perfect addition to my place considering a) i recently chucked my t.v. (it really looks like a stack of tellys) and b) i need more illumination around here!

my name was painted on a wall in the cellar of my childhood house. years later, after my parents had sold the house, i was invited in by the present owners and was brought down to the cellar - thei...

yummm.