Posted on January 10th, 2009 by mountain girl | Comments Off on salty reflections of mommyhood…
Yesterday Zia and I went on a shopping excursion…for seaweed. We like to go to an Asian market, where we can choose from a huge array of seaweed such as kombu, hijiki, wakame, nori, agar agar, and arame. The prices are unbeatable, and I can also get a rocking deal on ginger root, which I […]
Posted on January 5th, 2009 by mountain girl | 6 Comments »
I thought you might like a little tour of my kitchen today. Hmmmm….what’s this? The brand-new kitchen mat still wavy from being rolled up! A freshly scrubbed and spruced corner. But really, you’d have to have seen it before to appreciate it. (And to […]
Posted on January 4th, 2009 by mountain girl | Comments Off on ginger tea/new teapot
my new teapot shiny and sparkly ginger root sliced voila! ginger tea
Posted on January 3rd, 2009 by mountain girl | 1 Comment »
My friend Nichola from back east stayed with us from December 23rd till New Year’s Day. It was super cool to spend some time with her again. We met in college and then worked together in upstate NY at an ABC House. Here’s Nichola modeling her newly crafted fleece scarf, which was a gift from…moi. As you […]
Posted on January 2nd, 2009 by mountain girl | Comments Off on matryoshka
There. So lovely I couldn’t intrude with words. A Christmas present for Zia from Grandma. A matryoshka (mother). A nesting doll. And now, the books. I could just drink in these illustrations! They […]