Peaches. Cobbler. Yum.

I’ve discovered recently that I have “social cooking anxiety disorder.” It’s one thing to cook for family. Quite another to cook for people you don’t live with. Recently we had friends over & I embraced my anxiety by leaning in and doing things I’d never done before. An improvised lamb stew. Berry cobbler from a never-tried recipe. But homemade bread, and that I’m comfortable with. Lesson: doesn’t really matter what you eat; it’s the eating together.

The New Basics Cookbook, by Julee Rosso & Sheila Lukins. Mostly for the chocolate chip cookies recipe--it makes a small batch of chewy, delicious cookies. Yum!

Love this method! Great texture, and I don’t have to worry about the oats sticking to the pan.

There are some flaws in the basic metaphor in this article. Most importantly, it ignores the fact that farmers were encouraged to replace dependence on cheap labor and cheap land with dependence on cheap oil.

Recently Anchorage discontinued glass recycling. After a few months of wincing every time I threw out a jar, it occurred to me that these jars were “free” storage containers. We all need to learn (or re-learn) the skills of using what we already have.