In my never-ending quest to learn how to do everything, I made hard cheese last weekend (previously, I have made mozzarella and ricotta). Brian helped, too. It was pretty fun, but it was a very long process (partly because this was our first attempt, but mostly because cheese takes a …
Last night we bottled two batches of wine. The first one was a German Traminer Spatlese and was quite good. It’s been a while since we’ve made a German wine and I had forgotten how much I like them. The second one was a blend of muscat, symphony, sauvignon blanc, …
I made up a slow-cooker ham pot pie recipe, which we had for supper this evening. My Mom sent home a ham bone with us yesterday (along with some other delicious Easter leftovers), so I was trying to figure out something to do with it. It was pretty good and …
After 10 years, it was time to toss the Weber. After replacing a number of parts on it throughout the years, the frame started rusting. I wasn’t as thrilled with the Weber as I had expected to be, so we decided to try a different brand this time around. I …
Today was quite productive. Not only was it laundry day, wherein I did six loads of laundry (and put away the two loads I did last night), I also took some time to clean out my email inbox and get caught up on some accounting-type things for Everyone Drinks. I …