Cookery

Happy new year, southern style

For a number of years now, Robert and I have enjoyed cooking up a southern new year’s day dinner featuring the traditional foods of pulled pork, hoppin’ john, collard greens and cornbread. Last year we were sick with COVID, and sick at heart over the Marshall Fire, so we

Cookery

Pimento Cheese

Yes, yes, it’s finally here: the McDonald recipe for pimento cheese. What is pimento cheese, some of you are asking? It’s an appetizer, a snack, it makes a great sandwich, it pairs well with those best summer tomatoes we all long for, you can put it in an

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Roar

About three weeks ago, I saw in my mind a picture of a lion’s paw, and someone was pulling a thorn out of the paw. I’ve been pondering this: who is the lion? who pulled the thorn? I mulled this over and shared it with my weekly prayer

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Confinement

I love to garden and I find that it has a marvelous way of being the perfect tonic at the perfect time. Sometimes it’s an opportunity to be fully engaged just with the work of my hands, a welcome respite from thinking thinking thinking. Other times, insights and solutions

Cookery

Liberté ... from the same old boring cocktails

Hello from the inside. I, like everyone else, have been living out the ultimate ‘I just wish I could stay home ALL THE TIME’ fantasy for the last five six who-knows how many weeks due to “the unprecented circumstances” and “issues related to COVID-19,” two phrases I hadn’t really

Cookery

No baloney

Dear all, the post below was (mostly) drafted on December 27, 2014. That’s a long time ago. In fact, that’s bologna. Or baloney. Except, well – read the below about that. I can now see that I was held up in posting this due to a) no photograph of

Cookery

holiday edition: green bean casserole

Happy Thanksgiving, y’all. It’s been a while – I got a little busy. Had to move this blog, a couple big projects at work, got married, you know, just this and that. Anyhow in honor of the holiday today, I wanted to share with you what is going on

MeMeMe

it's a sine

Ever since I can remember, one of my chief cravings when I’ve not felt well (at least, when I’m both not feeling well and eating) is Jello chocolate pudding, the kind you get in the refrigerated case. Just being honest. by crgreene More than once in the last

Cookery

sunshine in a jar

If you don’t like lemons, there’s nothing for you here today. Unless you like limes. If you don’t like lemons and you don’t like limes, I hope you like oranges, although this post won’t help you with those. If you don’t like lemons, limes,

MeMeMe

what's in a word?

From my couch of enforced idleness, I’ve had more time to noodle on the internetz than usual. TweetStats is a nifty little service that lends a little faux rigor and quasi-scientific analysis to your Twitter stream [Over half my tweets (51.38%) are replies, concretely illustrating the importance I

Librarianing

hotel illness

Still life with sniffles. by crgreene Last weekend I was in Seattle for the ALA Midwinter Meeting (for the few civilians who read this blog, ALA stands for American Library Association). What I planned to do: * Attend various committee meetings, vendor breakfasts, etc. * Visit with colleagues old and new * Ramble

The Fam

goodbye january, hello rose

Thanks, January, for the beauty of frost and ice, the way cold weather lets you know you’re alive, the shortsleeves brought on by some unusual warm weather,  and for a new year, but mostly, for a new niece: Rose Eleanor Patterson Born January 20 Perfect to us in every

Librarianing

For those who are about to present

… we salute you. Maybe you, dear readers, do a fair amount of presenting; maybe you don’t. Maybe you’ve given up on me altogether after my protracted silence on this channel. If you are out there (*tap tap*  *tap tap* *hellooooo*) and you do ever give talks as part

MeMeMe

The College of Content

I mentioned in a previous post that I was going to attempt to be less critical. You may have wondered why there were no further reports on progress … and in an effort not to be critical of myself, I’ll refrain from comment and leave you to surmise for yourself

Cookery

Curing what ails you: chicken soup for the MOUTH

I have a true confession to make. I am 36 years old, and until just a couple weeks ago, I’d never made chicken soup from scratch. I can see now that was a huge mistake. By the time this recipe was done, it smelled so amazing I was ready

Cookery

Farmer Maggot's creamy mushroom & potato soup

I considered calling this Samwise’s Tater and Mushroom soup but once I added the cream I figured it would be more of a Shire soup than an on-the-road soup. For those less enlightened nerdy than I, here’s the deal on Farmer Maggot. Without further ado, the recipe. You

MeMeMe

Chammak challo

If you are in my general proximity you have likely already been subjected to my effusions about the dance classes I’ve been doing more or less weekly for the last year or so – and when I say dance class, I really mean more like an hour of danc-y cardio

Tunes

I still love you, New York

Not my favorite song of his by a long shot … but seems appropriate today. And for what it’s worth: I do love you, New York. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmHgY_J63Ik&w=280&h=187] God bless America. Thanks to all those whose courage

The Fam

29

Today, we celebrate the 29 delightful years that I have had the pleasure of knowing my sister – slightly in advance, because the day itself is tomorrow, but I’m just wild like that. Happy birthday, Chelsea! You may be a grown-up married lady now, but you will also always be

MeMeMe

Happiness, pt 4

After too long an absence, the happiness posts are back. Here’s what I’ve got for you this time: birdsong | crackers | lazy Sundays where you don’t have to leave the house and can just wear your PJs all day | throw pillows | all the beautiful plums & lilacs in

MeMeMe

If you can't say something nice...

The other day on the twitters, someone I follow re-tweeted this from Yoko Ono: yokoono: Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life. Now, I’m not a huge fan of Yoko, but I was also

MeMeMe

Nostalgia

The recent spate of miserable heat and stifling humidity brings to mind the years (1980-1985) our family lived in a suburb of Orlando. I know, way to sell it, right? Not the Sunshine State, not sunny Florida, which the orange juice manufacturers have managed to imbue with a refreshing, delicious

MeMeMe

On cobblers' children

You can probably think of several of those old sayings: cobblers’ children never have shoes; doctors’ children are always sick; etc. I have a new one for you: cg’s blog rarely gets updated.  And when I say updated, I mean both in terms of posts and in terms of

Librarianing

Seek, and ye shall ...

N.B. I don’t normally post about work-related matters … heck, lately I don’t post at ALL, so who knows what qualifies as regular? In any case, I started out intending this for our department blog at work and it has stubbornly and irreversibly formed itself as you will

MeMeMe

A New Thing

Really, I should’ve known that even mentally assenting to the idea of NaBloPoMo was certain to result in failure – it’s not like I’ve been super successful with it in past, or even successful at all, and this go round involved a move and a new job and