West of the Moon

Archive for December, 2009

the little things.

And, of course, the day that Matt and I decide to get back on track with weekday cooking, the pilot light has gone out on our stove. Or something that creates symptoms like the pilot light, namely, the oven does not get hot.  The stovetop still works, but not the oven. I feel as though [...]

why this is going to be difficult.

Monday morning, the alarm goes off at 5:10.   I manage to get up pretty quickly, and spend a little while shuffling around the kitchen, washing dishes and making coffee.  After showering and combing my hair and whatnot, I spent fifteen minutes or so blearily checking blogs and news and stuff, and then (once I’ve woken [...]

eating local.

The plan to cook more during the week is not going as well as I might have hoped.  We have good weeks, where we cook dinner three nights a week, and we have bad weeks, where it’s restaurants and takeout every night.  At the beginning of my school year, good weeks outnumbered bad weeks.  By [...]