animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

big. sweet. rip.

The vet called with the results of Ripley’s 12-week thyroid test. Everything is great! Her numbers are now exactly where they should be, so she won’t have to be tested again for a year. Not only that, but she lost a few pounds since being on the thyroid medication and …

new year’s day 2005

Today we did our standard January 1st stuff. That is, we put away all of the Christmas decorations, disposed of the tree, and had our traditional meal consisting of roast pork, kielbasa, sauerkraut, and dumplings. This was all topped off by a bottle of Kendall-Jackson Riesling. Yum. Not much else …

red dragon

We did another movie and a margarita night for our New Year’s Eve celebration. This followed a veritable cooking marathon of making Lasagne Verde al Forno (Baked Spinach Lasagna for my non-Italian readers). I made this for Brian’s birthday a few years ago and it was a total pain in …