I'm not the craigslist type.  The lack of apostrophe bugs the ever-living crap out of me.  More importantly, I am working hard to pare down what I own (someday I will have a tiny house), and shopping for new things doesn't quite fit with that plan.  So it was rather out of character when I found myself there early this month.  I'd seen some mention of someone finding something nifty on there and wondered it it ever really happened.  I headed over, and what did I see, shining out from among the slag heap of 70s particleboard atrocities, but a [...]

This is the recipe from the towels shown in the post from last week.  I'm not typing it up all proper and presentable, because that would rather go against the spirit of the thing now wouldn't it.  The handwriting (oh and that monkey) are half the fun. Now to be honest, I don't ever use crisco (because I never actually have it on hand) and instead use all butter.  I also tend to use cake flour and not bother with sifting.  Oh, and I've been known to make it with buttermilk instead of regular milk and to up the coco [...]

If you've been following along for the last few weeks, you might remember I started a shrub a little while ago.  I reported on step one (in which we chop and sugar), and step two (in which much vinegar is used).  Step three was waiting.  Days and days and days of waiting.  Patient waiting while our friendly microbes do their magic.  You can guess how much fun that is.  I didn't feel that required much of an update. But now, now we're on step four.  Step four is putting the delicious syrup into some sort of long term storage vessel [...]