Category: Daily Doings

Adventures in cooking for One continues – Pizza

Back in April, approximately two months ago, I made a 1 lb. batch of pizza dough and divided it into thirds. I froze two of the thirds for later (which, as it happens, is now) and I made a myself a pizza with one of the thirds that day. This morning I harvested some baby […]

The Appetizing Way! Make every thing you eat appetizing.

The Chinese adage “We eat with our eyes first” is very true and there is the “appetizing way” to approach your food, even snacks, even leftovers that anyone can adopt, and possibly change your life. Sound radical? It’s not. Take some care with what you eat, whether alone or with others and eat with your eyes first! Watch your mood lift, your health improve, your perspective shift. It’s amazing.

Do you decorate inside your cabinets and drawers?

I am not a beauty blogger. This seems very apparent to me but am mentioning it just in case! Keep that in mind as you read about my morning routine and my medicine cabinet. There’s more to feeling good about yourself than lipstick but lipstick helps!

I’ve found my Village

I love to walk and have long lamented that I had to drive to a nearby park to walk around it because my town of Vista, Ca has not been walkers friendly. But, thanks to the Vista Conservancy as well as to the city, that is changing and I am now free to move about my town. On foot . . .

The weather is perfect!

In this perfect, perfect to me anyway, Coastal Southern California “May Gray” damp weather today I fondly recall being in similar weather in Ireland, and the feeling was only heightened by a visit yesterday to a monthly Valley Center, CA antique sale held in an old historic barn . . .