BIG CHANGE: chapter 3 of life in Toulouse soon to end
BIG CHANGE: this time next month, Morocco, and the month after that as well
BIG CHANGE: starting August 10, no set plans for life, and that’s a-okay
…things are in the works.
May 22, 2008
September 2, 2007
plunk
Today, I…
- spilled boiling plum goo all over the inside of my hot oven (résultat : fossilized carbon splatters for me to scrape off! whoopee!). Incidentally, the tart I was attempting to make also burned. Fantastique.
- tried to make plum jam, but ended up with plum caramel
- actually watched all fifteen minutes of this guy noodling around in his kitchen
- searched “how to make french baguettes” on Epicurious – and the ‘best match’ result was a recipe for calf testicle pâté (a.k.a. bull butter, if you were curious)
- took twelve pictures of some plums that were looking pretty on my window sill
I also spent a lot of money on a chicken and bought goat cheese from a little, nice, old guy who hardly spoke French and still hasn’t learned his Euro coins. Needless to say, it was a zany day in Kat’s culinary mania, and although most of my adventures were really misadventures, at least I have three and a half jars of caramelized plum goop to show for it all!
P.S. I fixed the CommonLife link 
July 13, 2006
sybaritism
My mother and I picked twenty pounds of blueberries this morning. That’s the kind of booty to bring home with your mama.
I made a first run of confiture. I scoff in the faces of all of the website writers who warned that the stuff wouldn’t gel. A more luscious jam I never did see.
The hot question in the Kramer household today is this : where will we store the nineteen remaining pounds of berries?
(In my belly?)