- Cold brew coffee
- Onion jam
- Pimento cheese
- Waaaay less screen time starting tomorrow
- All cheese, really
Category: Lists
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The Best of It: Last Day of Teaching (for now) Edition
Personal cheese plate for my friend’s Instagram live gallery talk -
The Best of It: Everybody’s Eating on the Weekend Edition
The perfect key lime pie - Key lime pie
- Chicago-style Italian beef
- Homemade French onion dip
- Kak’ik
- Beans and rice, in all its various forms
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The Best of It: Projects Edition
My first quilt! - Successfully completing my first quilt.
- Having all the supplies for my next quilt project on order.
- Having supplies for my first weaving project in many years on order.
- Gist Yarn has a really nice variety of free pattern PDFs, many of which are aimed at beginners.
- My first garden harvest.
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The Best of It: I’m Still a Busy Bee Edition
Homemade bread is always the best. Always. - The Golden Vietnam tea in this month’s Tea Embassy shipment
- Peanut noodles
- I am done grading the big project for all of my ENGL 2311 sections
- I had a great practice with one of my Pilates teacher training classmates this afternoon
- I loved my first SRY Studio class!
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The Best of It: Creativity Edition
Nancy the Cat pays a visit - Getting all of my poems organized in a spreadsheet.
- Exciting calls for submissions.
- Creating the design for my next quilt project.
- Ordering supplies for my next quilt project.
- My work email inbox is down to a manageable size.
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The Best of It: Garden Delights Edition
Thai peppers, shishito peppers, and Japanese eggplants starting to come in! -
The Best of It: Food is a Hobby Under Quarantine Edition
Stages of black sesame green tea ice cream - The black sesame green tea ice cream tasted delicious!
- Ramen noodles with spring onions and garlic crisp
- Paco’s Tacos
- My KitchenAid ice cream maker attachment
- Queso
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The Best of It: Mostly Kitchen Things Edition
Ttukbagei-gyeranjjim, using Maangchi’s recipe - Successfully making ttukbagei-gyeranjjim for breakfast.
- Successfully making black sesame and green tea ice cream for dinner tonight.
- Wondering what will show up in my Tea Embassy monthly subscription package.
- My vintage pearls, which I got for a song at a garage sale.
- Getting all of the dishes done, for once.
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The Best of It: Even Though I Feel Inexplicably Anxious Edition
My new coasters - I had my first Pilates teacher training class today, and it was great! I’m feeling really excited and inspired.
- Getting to send friends poetry care packages.
- Solo living room dance parties first thing in the morning.
- The old furniture I put on the curb has all be claimed within about five hours.
- Restoring my cast iron teapot that had a bit of a rust problem. Hooray for home repair!
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The Best of It: 75% Done with the Semester Edition
My gorgeous new dining set - My new dining set is here, and it is absolutely perfect.
- Having proper coasters so I don’t mess up my new wood furniture.
- I have a student who always asks me what tea I’m drinking in class, and this simple question always makes me so happy.
- Getting breakfast burritos from La Cocina de Consuelo yesterday
- Canceling things I don’t really want or need.