Project Housewife
house·wife /ˈhousˌwīf/ noun noun: housewife; plural noun: housewives A while ago I realized that there’s an awful lot of sewing that should be happening i...
Category: chatelaine
In the time to boil water
The progeny are away with their father on vacation so even less cooking than usual is going on these days. The fact that we are now well into a typically thick...
Saving grace
I get paid once a month. It probably would be a challenge for most people to budget out an entire month on one check that comes in somewhat randomly. It’s...
Melting
I don’t deal well with the heat. Never have, probably never will. That said, it’s finally hot where I live. Really hot and pretty damn humid as wel...
Pinching them till they scream
A lady I follow recently had a post about how second-hand stores seemed to be going up on their prices and did her readers see similar trends? I find that it d...
Salt bomb
Life has been especially crazy lately. Coming up hard and fast on the completion of a multi-year project at work so I’m working long hours and more days t...
Stitching through time
I know I’ve mentioned this before but it keeps popping up and surprises me like the first time I realized it; I have a lot more time on my hands these day...
Simple pleasures
Every summer I wonder why I torture myself blanching, peeling and then canning hundreds of tomatoes in the form of sauce or chopped up and packed in their own j...
Figs are fun!
Granted I have a strange sense of fun. But anything is better than making enough sauce for the entire year in just three days. Sy came across an insanely good ...
3 days of Hell for 362 of pleasure
In the greater interests of keeping food costs in check, eating as local and in-season as possible, convenience and of course for better food, I spend three day...