Recipe: Baby Onions, yellow squash, greens and beer!

This recipe was invented tonight, and it was so good. I am sorry for no pictures (as the camera is in COLOMBIA WITH JACOB), but I promise it was GORGEOUS, as well as being damn good.

8-12 Pearl onions, white and purple, peeled but not cut up
1 Cup Yellow squash, pattypan squash or zucchini cut up into 1 cm cubes
Handful or two of mixed greens (I used kale, arugula, frisee, spinach and chard)
1-4 Cloves of garlic (just depending on how much you love garlic), coarsely chopped
Beer: I recommend an ale...something sweet and hoppy
Olive oil

Heat oil over medium-high heat, add onions and saute for about five minutes, till they start to get a little soft, then add your squash and saute for another five minutes. Add garlic and saute for another minute, then the greens. As they begin to get fairly wilted (after about two minutes), give the dish a good rinsing of beer (um...somewhere in the range of a quarter cup), and stir until it has cooked away, and your greens are nicely wilted. Remove from heat, salt and pepper to taste!

The end, ENJOY!

me and my man

El Senior Mick went to Columbia yesterday....for seven weeks. Ekkks. Sigh. I'll be attending lots of yoga classes and boulder a lot, I imagine.

This is what I bet we'd look like if we were Japanese rockers and decided to get together (which we would, of course). From dropsnap.

From the Sartorialist, which I haven't been to in a while.

weird...

I was chatting with my brother last night, and he sent me a link to this page. So odd. I am not putting up pictures because I think the page in general is totally wrong (though yes, I did look at all the pictures).

Colorado REALLY is the most beautiful state, ya know.

These are from our most recent 2-day outing to Shelf Road, outside of Canon City, CO. The train is from I-25 between Castle Rock and Colorado Springs, the rest are all from Shelf.

Right now I have strep throat. Weren't you supposed to not get strep throat after the age of nine? Ugh. It's really painful. Penicillin is on the way, though, thank God.

Cigarette, beer in hand (speedo on bottom)

This article killed me.

My Bags!

Hi there, I haven't posted in a while. It's because Jacob is about to leave for the summer, so we've been spending lots of time together, getting out a lot. It's been nice. A few weeks ago I made this bag, and have been so flattered by a couple friends and some random people asking if I could make them one like it! Yay! Hopefully they meant it...

Anyway, the pattern isn't really a pattern (I just measured it), so I'm working on a new "real" one (you know, out of paper, that you can see and pick up and use). It will include pockets and some sort of closure method...thinking a zipper at the top. I made the strap out of an old belt, and I might look for some other woven belts, or might talk to Liz about making my own (I hope it works and they're not really ugly and/or weak and break).

Maybe I could open up a shop on etsy or something...