Katherine Sharpe | a pilgrim’s blogress

Week 2: Meat, Wine, Wool, Music.

I keep forgetting to take pictures of my food. Maybe that means I am growing out of a ridiculous habit. Or maybe it only means that the food is more delicious, now, too delicious to stop and photograph.
There was lots of watercress left over from the tea party last week, so I made a creamy [...]

Get Ready to Crumble!

Weeknight dessert fantasia.

Plum Crumble
1.25 cups rolled oats
.75 cups brown sugar (packed)
.5 cups all purpose flour
1 stick o’ butter
2 lbs. plums
scant 2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1. Mix the flour and oats in a bowl with half of the brown sugar. Add the butter, and rub it in with your fingers until the mixture becomes [...]

Fish She Is Very Small

Too good not to share: I found this in my iPhoto today. Some friends and I bought, and ate, these petits poissons in Montréal a couple of years ago. They were very small!

How To Cook (and Dress) A Wolf

These are the busiest weeks of the year, these couple before Christmas.
I sort of like it.
On Sunday, A— and I threw a clothing swap at our place. We had a dozen ladies over. She made cinnamon buns and I made tea sandwiches (Pernod-marinated fennel and green apple and minted radish, and lox and cream cheese [...]

Gets Nostalgic About Blogging Innocently

Where the magic used to happen, circa 2003.
Just as I’ve been re-designing the outward look of this blog, I’ve been thinking to myself about what it’s for, content-wise. I miss the old Too Much Katherine blog! Blogging was easier then, and I have been wondering why that is. I think it’s because I was totally [...]

Rhapsody in Gray

“Conducive to study” is what we’d have called a day like this back at Reed: tiny, pricking raindrops falling from the sky like cold needles, the whole outside a blanket of dampness and gray. It makes you want to go the the library, make a bright corner, keep dry with old books, and dose yourself [...]

Budget Recipes, Volume 5: Hot Soup!

Tonight, we’re making a bean soup, minestrone-style.
(Actually, a couple of weeks ago, we’re making a bean soup. This budget recipe series got away from me. Just pretend.)
First, we get out the ingredients and admire them. We have some cheese and crackers to snack on, on the left.

Then we get serious like this:
BEAN MINESTRONE
Servings: 10
Price per [...]

Dinner, 11.17

I went away for Thanksgiving. I finished a couple of big projects. I came back here and took the first couple of days off in weeks. I gave the first bit of attention I’ve given to 400 Words in a while, and it was to make a step that I’ve been thinking about for a [...]