Category Archives: magpie

Friday Favorites: Watch These on Netflix Before They’re Gone

I actually had a different list planned for today but then realized after I recommended it last Friday that Monkey Twins had been on Netflix for long enough it might go away soon. So, that prompted me to get this list up. These are the best things I watched on Netflix over the last yearContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Watch These on Netflix Before They’re Gone”

Letter of Recommendation: Kimchi Storage Container

I love making kimchi: I use a combination of a recipe my Korean friend Hyunsuk gave me and this recipe. But it was always a bit of a struggle because I only had quart canning jars for fermentation and storage—which worked but were a hot mess (or, technically, a cold, bright-red mess). And then thereContinue reading “Letter of Recommendation: Kimchi Storage Container”

Friday Favorites: Feedly Clean-Up

I save things I find that I like and/or that I need more time to read/check out in my Feedly, a news aggregator I described in this post. But my Read Later folder tends to get backed up, and so recently I’ve been going through it watching/reading things and cleaning it out. Here are 10Continue reading “Friday Favorites: Feedly Clean-Up”

Friday Favorites: Food Blogs

I get a lot of questions from friends about where I find recipes, so I thought I’d start a list here. See this post for how I curate feeds from these blogs and organize the recipes once I find them: Serious Eats. This is the site I’ve consulted most frequently over the years. The olderContinue reading “Friday Favorites: Food Blogs”

Letter of Recommendation: Baskets

I’m stealing this title straight up from the New York Times’s excellent column. I’ve been into baskets since I went through my Victoria magazine period in late college/early grad school—when all my furniture was wicker and all my upholstery white (what a great idea with two dogs, a tendency to knock over mugs of tea,Continue reading “Letter of Recommendation: Baskets”