alchemy

Recently I've been doing a lot of alchemy. Here are a few of my favorite creations:

This chicken noodle soup, made from scratch, is displayed attractively in a local, handmade bowl bought earlier this month at Bowls For Humanity. It tastes really good with saltine crackers, apples, and Colby Monteray Jack cheese.

This is beef stew that I made with my mom when she was visiting this weekend. It is one of my favorite meals. The bread and beef are both from my monthly order from the Utah Community Food Co-op. I highly recommend it. Both the stew and the food co-op. Also, I can you tell that I love this bowl?

I've also made some delicious banana bread, but I do not have a picture of it. My friend William gave me the recipe and he is quite a baker. His recipe makes 5 mini-loaves and one big loaf. Great for giving to people who you love. Or who you want to love you...

Granola is also good but sans photograph. It gets eaten so fast it's gone before I remember to take a picture. It is one of Megan's favorites. Even more than fancy trail mix.

Perhaps someday I'll give you the recipes.

pavlovian theorizing

Whenever I come home to my house I always have to go to the bathroom. I think it's a learned action, like Pavlov and his dog: hear the bell, salivate; come home, go to the bathroom. It doesn't matter if I've just gone 10 minutes before, if I leave the house, say to take out the trash and recycling, as soon as I get back into the house and enter my room, my bladder is calling for attention again. Maybe it is a medical condition I should get looked at. Maybe I just need to retrain my brain to think about something else when I get home. Like dancing.

i am writing.