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wow, I love this!

my cats knock flower arrangements over if they can get to them... but recently I made the mistake of leaving their potted catnip plant on an accessible kitchen counter overnight. (I'd watered it too much and didn't want it to leak on my book case.) morning came, and catnip roots & leaves, plus dirt, was scattered throughout the kitchen. guess it's back to the dry stuff til I find another plant outside somewhere.

cheese! obviously it can't get too out of hand because cheese gets moldy. I just moved into a new place and in my fridge, I have just milk, some produce, peanut butter, and mustard, but already 5 kinds of cheese.

When my roommate and I were painting our apartment a few years ago, we were still living and working an hour south of our new home. Almost every night for a week, our dinner was a pint of ice cream shared between us on the ride back to furnishings and bed. It took us a while to realise the negative impacts paint fumes and sugar highs were having on our sanity!
I'm moving again next week and have been trying to figure out how to eat well on the odds and ends I have left in my apartment and plan for a good meal once I arrive at my new new place. What do you all do with your half jars of mustard and miso?

I was really surprised! I kinda liked Ryan. Here's what my sister and I think was the judge's thought process: none of those bottom three have a chance of being Top Chef, but Ryan rarely screws up so bad. So why not take the opportunity to get rid of him on this one failure, and take care of Nikki next time she tries to use Velveeta for mac n cheese and Mark next time he does something sloppy. Can't wait for Nikki to go, though, and when I saw Mark in the opening credits I thought Man, how much longer is this guy gonna manage to hang on?

love your photos -- especially of the kitchen. nice spice rack and cake dome!

I had leftovers of the pasta with broccoli sauce I made after seeing the recipe here yesterday! We ate it for dinner last night with a few alterations. It was so good, I kind of had to talk my boyfriend into saving some for today so we could grab containers from the fridge this morning and go.

I don't think my smoke detector ever goes off while I'm cooking -- I wonder if it would go off during a fire... Better check on that!

I always wondered why Grade A was the fancy grade, when I tend to fancy B myself. Last spring I finally asked at a sugaring shed, and they claimed that Grade A was developed as the fancy grade way back in the day when New Englanders had few choices for sweetening. Apparently, the more refined flavor of Grade A was preferable for general baking and sweetening, because people actually got tired of the maple taste (imagine!).

I guess this is just a VT thing, but Burlington has made CFLs available to landlords to hand out to their tenants for free. So, I've replaced all my bulbs that fit inside glass fixtures, leaving incandescents in the bathroom, above my bed, etc. The only difference I notice is that the CFLs take a few seconds to "warm up" -- that is, they aren't fully bright right away. I think it's a good mix.