Fall 2011 – Summer 2023. I think the first post was in October, 2011. Eleven years and nine months ago. That’s a long time, if I do say so. Anyway–thank all ya’ll for hanging out with me here on the Farm and in my little big world. And yes… I am still working on that
And some shopping! Apologies. I worked hard to make sure there would be content here the whole time we were traveling, and now that we’re back on the Farm I’ve let things slip. Beginning this afternoon with Mrs. Kuusamo’s Finnish Salad, and continuing through to Friday with Finnish Cardamon Bread (in the bread maker) I’ve
I thought I ought to take a minute and comments on the excessive number of reposts. I am busy. I cannot remember when I’ve been busier. Maybe back when we were cooking and feeding 120 people at the tailgates. (That’s a fun one.) But now that I think about it, I think I’m busier. On
You may have been thinking that I’ve been away from Big Food for a few days. Not so! I have spent a number of hours behind the scenes. About a week ago I got a notification that Big Food had hit the 80% limit on the 40GB of storage my plan has and if I
I’d just like to pass along a couple of thoughts this afternoon. First, this coming Sunday I will turn one year younger than standard retirement age. Should be a good day, though I long ago retired from my day job to become a lady of leisure with nothing better to do than blog. I have
and I still haven’t figured out what’s going on with the structure of the blog. Sorry. But let’s see if we can generate some content, shall we? Big Food Recipe: Creative Cooking Chocolate Wines Cookies Recipe: Chocolate Cheese Drop Cookies Stretching the Food Dollar This is a very old post, still in converted blogspot format,
Thanks for the feedback on Saturday’s The Week in Pictures post! It was much appreciated. I have concluded that I need to update the blog’s theme. I see it’s no longer available for download, which leads me to conclude that (some of?) the problems I am having are theme-related. If I knew what I was
Many years ago, a family friend said to one of the girls, Your parents have a lot of crappy old stuff. To be honest, I have cleaned that up a bit because he did not say, “stuff.” But it is true. We have a lot of old stuff and though most of it is not,
Really. Who cares? Before Bigfoodetc was on WP it was on blogspot for a couple of years. Who cares? Yay! Let’s break open the champagne! Filed under “Anniversaries & Holidays”
No excuses, I know. But I cannot find a book I had in my hands two days ago (Hanson, Who Killed Homer?). I cannot find the list I made from that book (classic Greek to read). I realized when I was buying a book Mr. Big Food needs (Searle, Minds, Brains, Science) that one of
That’s my attempt at mathematizing with an American Z. That was somewhere this morning. I only comment that 1337 seems like an odd (harhar) number of likes to recognize, but I suppose we should treat all numbers with the same regard– unless we’re talking about my egg money balance in which case larger is objectively
It has come to my attention that the Contact Form here was not working. I think I have that fixed now. If you thought you were contacting me, rest assured I was not being rude in not acknowledging you. I just had no idea! Sorry! Fixed now I think.
I am still having behind the scenes issues from an admin perspective but it appears that y’all are seeing things. Thanks for your comments! Two weeks ago I upgraded my SiteGround Plan. SiteGround is a great hosting service, by the way. Part of the upgrade involved SG moving the site to a new server. I
When no one was looking we turn the page at the park at University guy to daily reading. I had high hopes for Dictation. Speak. Words appear in a doc on the screen. Copy. Paste. Do a bit of tweaking. Publish. It would give me something to do and would keep you entertained. I was
As you are an observant bunch you will have noticed the new Tip Jar over there –>. I debated this issue– which was one of the issues to which (cough) I have been referring today. But I looked at it thusly: one must swing to hit. So I decided to give it a swing. As
What an interesting day it’s been. It took me literally nine hours to post that photograph. I will not bore you on Independence Day with the details but I am out of space. You’re seeing the pancakes only because I deleted some videos of the sky and gave myself some wiggle room. 20gigs isn’t what
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