Karrey's Profile

Watch those berries closely. I picked a bunch a few years back that were at their height of freshness, and thankfully I checked one out before popping it into my mouth, because it was teeming with tiny red mites.

If you've never tried it before, just once I must implore that you put a schmear of cream cheese inside your grilled cheese. It gives a depth of flavor and zing that is really hard to match any other way.

We also "butter" the outside of our grilled cheese sandwiches with a very thin layer of mayo rather than butter. It loses its mayo taste, and crisps the bread up beautifully, without tearing up the bread like butter might (although we always leave a stick of butter in a covered dish on the counter, for spreading on toast or whatever).

I'm in Iowa City, and while we're not at the diversity level of Chicago, we're certainly doing quite a bit better than the rest of the state! Plenty of culture, too.

Gorgeous.

I know college students' budgets are pretty tiny, but do we really need to encourage them to start buying blatant knockoffs so early? Let them admire Eames rockers from afar until they're done with school and can save up for the real deal.

My friend Mark has been experimenting with making his own wooden handlebars as well: http://phillipshomerepair.com/?page_id=135

I'd be interested to follow this thing through to see if the laptop was actually stolen, or if this is just one huge commercial for some software that the "victim" wrote.

Isn't it hard to sit at this desk with that pile of stuff underneath it?

In Iowa, we've got a local winery/distillery called Cedar Ridge, and they've got the most fantastic dark sipping rum I've ever tasted. They age it in Templeton Rye casks, so it's dark from those rather than from fakey "spices". It's delicious.

Oooh, I would love this piece. I've got a Sculptra bedroom set and sideboard, but not this one. Unfortunately, I don't think I could justify paying more for this one item than I did for all four of the other ones combined.