When in Doubt, Paint a Door

When in Doubt, Paint a Door

Seriously, when all other projects feel too daunting/expensive to tackle (I'm looking at you, Bedroom), just paint a door or two. Enormous and immediate gratification. Take this exterior back door, for example. Someone had even scratched their name into the paint. I corrected it for them. After: So satisfying! I sanded it a bit and [...]

Lettuce Week: Thursday

Lettuce Week: Thursday

Produce: Speckled Bibb and Baby Leaf Mix Lettuce Recipe: Scallop and Citrus Salad from Mark Bittman's Kitchen Express. With apologies to Mr. Bittman, here's a picture of the recipe: No fancy food photography available, so instead I'll show you a picture of what dinner usually looks like around here: a laptop and some ill-gotten HBO GO [...]

Lettuce Week: Wednesday

Lettuce Week: Wednesday

The garden consumption continues, although tonight we took a break from salads. Produce: Spinach.  I should know by now that when it comes to cooked spinach, I never prepare enough.  I harvest a huge amount like this, thinking I've conquered the insufficient cooked spinach issue, and then it wilts down to a mound the size of [...]