Mammoth Straw Creatures Populate Japanese Farmland in the Annual Wara Art Festival https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/09/wara-art-festival-japan/
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Comfort Food: Kimchi jjigae
This makes me so happy. I use this recipe with a couple of tweaks from Eric Kim—plus my homemade kimchi and homemade tofu. I have never once said the words, “This has too much kimchi in it,” but I may have gotten preeeeetty close this time. Oh well, I’ll just eat it with rice. OnContinue reading “Comfort Food: Kimchi jjigae”
Ceramics Saturdays: Ding Ware
The second entry in our series on the Five Great Kilns of the Song Dynasty…Ding ware was produced at a kiln in the north of China, near Hebei, during what is known as the Northern Song, the first of two peaks of imperial and cultural power during the 300-year dynastic period. Ding wares are typicallyContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: Ding Ware”
Friday Favorites: Feedly Cleanup +
Here are some more favorites from my Feedly plus some other things I came across this week that I thought were worth sharing: Rise of Phoenixes on Netflix. Don’t strap in for this one unless (a) you have about 70 hours to burn and (b) you really like brocade. But Chen Kun alone is worthContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Feedly Cleanup +”
Look! I made another brick…. sourdough whole wheat sandwich loaf from A Perfect Loaf (I’m giving you that link so you can see what it’s supposed to look like. Oh well, tastes like bread.
Raven stamps are out!
Some Awesome Kid Art
I’m lucky to have friends with kids with some serious artistic skills. Today I thought I’d feature some of my favorite work of theirs. This first one is from my friend Amy’s son Graham. I love the pinwheel flower…. This next one is his older brother Ethan’s. I love the proportions here and the colors.Continue reading “Some Awesome Kid Art”
Christmas Card Design: Vote!
I like to do papercuts, a practice that came out of a combination of my childhood love of cutting out paper dolls and my adult admiration for woodblock prints (papercuts are WAY easier than woodcuts or linocuts). And for the last however many years, I’ve been doing a papercut for my annual holiday cards. LastContinue reading “Christmas Card Design: Vote!”
Elderberry Cordial
There are elderberry bushes all along the slopes of the Sierra Nevada, and today I went to one of my favorite picking spots outside Bridgeport to harvest berries for this year’s cordial. I use this recipe from Hank Shaw. You just have to be careful to pick the berries off the stems because the stemsContinue reading “Elderberry Cordial”
Ceramics Saturdays: Jun Ware
In homage to Tiara Thursdays, I thought I would start a series about ceramics, a minor obsession of mine I’ve previously written about here and here. We’re starting with the Five Great Kilns of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 CE), each of which produced wares that were collected by emperors, scholars, and aristocrats as soon asContinue reading “Ceramics Saturdays: Jun Ware”
The Rookery 