Music and Veganism

Well, I’ve decided to take a break of an undetermined length of time.  I’m pretty over food blogging, and I never feel like taking pictures of my food anymore.  I stopped caring, so why would anyone else?
I’ve decided to start actually blogging on CharlotteLittlehales.com, and that blog will not be about food, but instead about [...]

I’m usually not a terribly productive person, ever, but I do have my exceptions.  Today was one of those.  Among other things I rarely do but I did today, I prepared my backyard for Operation: Stray Cat Elimination.
Remember the essential oils I ordered?  Well, they came today.  (So did some awesome looking tea and yerba [...]

Have you ever made a mistake without realizing it until months or years later, and then you think, “Damn!  If only I’d been able to see into the future!”
Of course.  We all have.  Well, my current mistake-revelation has to do with this expensive fabric that Phil and I bought to make curtains with at our [...]

Sorry I’ve been MIA lately!  Phil and I finally left the back hole behind and moved into our new place, and we love it.  This whole week was spent packing, moving, unpacking and setting everything up.  It feels like home, and now we’re just trying to adjust to the drastic change of neighborhood.  North Philly [...]

I got a pretty good haul from the Farmer’s Market today.

Garlic, squash, tomatoes, eggplant, multigrain baguette, oyster mushrooms and green pepper.  Aren’t they beautiful!
It’s my Sunday tradition to do my errands early, then make myself a kick-ass sandwich for lunch as a reward.

Tofu, avacado, sprouts, baby greens, green heirloom tomato and a little balsamic vinegar.  [...]

Lately when people ask me how my garden is doing, I catch myself just before referring to it as a “failure”.  I’m not very comfortable bragging, so sometimes I tend to err on the side of self-deprecation instead of just being honest.
Well, the truth is the garden is not a failure– not when I have [...]

Today was the day.

My tomato plants just up and stopped growing flower buds, and the ones that did grew dropped consistently.  There’s no chance of getting tomatoes from those plants, and they were just hogging the sun and water that could go to healthy plants, so I decided to cut them loose (har de har).

Now [...]

It’s about 12:30pm on a Sunday, which is the first day of my weekend, and is when I get most of my food shopping done.  I do this on Sunday mornings for 2 reasons: the grocery store is still fairly empty, and it’s the only time I know I will be able to find a [...]

Our lease is up September 30th, so apartment hunting just begun.  We know what we want: a space for music (either a room or a basement), a good sized kitchen, and an outdoor space (patio or balcony will do).  Neighborhood needs to be safe, of course.  And an added perk would be a guest bedroom/office/sewing [...]

I’ve always had oily skin.  And though I haven’t had acne since my freshman year of college (whew!), I do have enlarged pores and I occasionally break out with a pimple or two.  I do appreciate that I don’t break out more often– I remember those days, and they were awful.  But I have to [...]