Category Archives: baking

Chicken

Posted on March 8, 2025 by daeja's view

OK, well this is going to be another one of those brain-salad riff type posts where I am all over the place, but if you follow or if your brain works like mine, you might find the connections somehow. Or … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Animal Stories, Are you kidding me?, baking, Birds, Cooking, Food, House plants, nature, Perspective, Seasons, senior musings, Spring, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, Uncategorized, Views From he Urban Porch ™, Weather, Weird, Winter | Tagged 11:11, brain salad, chicken, chicken for chicken, crow royalty, Dutch Baby, Foodie, Memories, neglected clivia, organic eggs, senior memories, senior musings, spring of deception | Leave a comment

The Panettone

Posted on December 22, 2024 by daeja's view

She’s been gone many years now, but every December I can still hear my mother’s voice in my head talking about the panettone. “Would you like this nice panettone?” “Here, take this lovely panettone home!” She would offer, urge, somewhat … Continue reading →

Posted in Are you kidding me?, baking, Food, Holidays, Humor, Perspective, Seasons, senior musings, Uncategorized, Weird | Tagged Christmas, holiday customs, i hate raisins, italian raisin cake, my italian mother, pannetone, regifting the pannetone, the gift pass on, who eats this stuff?, who likes pannetone | 5 Comments

Summing Up Twenty-three

Posted on December 31, 2023 by daeja's view

Every time it gets to the last days of writing for the year, I visualize a cartoon of myself wiping my brow and saying “Whew! Made it! So here we are again. I’m scrolling back over the posts for this year … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, baking, Birds, Bucket List, Cooking, Coping, Dogs, Earworm of the day, Flashback, Food, Holidays, Perspective, Seasons, senior musings, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, Uncategorized | Tagged 2023, aging, another year, baking fail, Christmas, dead monsters, earworms, end of the year, Holidays, letting go, New Year, senior musings, senior reflections, summing up, the holiday curse, whew! | Leave a comment

Random in the Rain

Posted on December 3, 2023 by daeja's view

I’m sitting here at the computer, eating a very yummy but particularly stinky combination of melted goat cheese “brie” topped with last season’s harvest of honey from my brother’s hives, with a scattering of Spanish almonds on top. It is … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Autumn, baking, Cooking, Food, Holidays, nature, Perspective, Seasons, senior musings, The Urban Porch, The Urban Porch ™, Uncategorized, Winter | Tagged chevre dish, cozy like a dog, dutch baby breakfast, dutch baby sunday, flashbacks of youth, last of the leaves, making autumn last, melted goat cheese, my foodie thoughts, my red tree, odd memories, what ever happened to | Leave a comment

And Then This Happened

Posted on November 23, 2023 by daeja's view

“Are you OK?” “You’ve been so quiet.” “What’s going on?” A few people have noticed and asked, not just about the sudden absence of posts over the past few weeks (after there having been so many), but concerning an overall … Continue reading →

Posted in Are you kidding me?, Autumn, baking, Food, Holidays, Humor, Perspective, senior musings, Uncategorized | Tagged baking failure, baking goals, dessert fail, Filo nutella snowflake fail, I can't bake, i needed this laugh, laugh till i cried, no patience for baking, pastry on fire, snowflake pastry fail, thanksgiving | 5 Comments

On a Stretch of Rainy Days

Posted on May 3, 2023 by daeja's view

Shortly before a recent stretch of rain drove the focus on projects and diversions inside the house, I managed to get out with a friend for a bit of meandering through the woods and fields. There was a portion of … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Stories, baking, Birds, Cooking, Food, nature, Spring, The Urban Porch ™, treasures, treasures, Uncategorized, Weather, Wildlife | Tagged Buzzards, duck eggs, Foxes, Muscovy ducks, road crew tales, sniffing lilacs, Spring flora and fauna, vixen, Wildlife | 2 Comments

Ms. Almanac

Posted on November 26, 2022 by daeja's view

The riotous outdoor color show is over. A lacework of sepia and gray branches framing the sky is pretty much what’s left behind, although the grass is still green, for now. I have removed the dead hanging plants from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Autumn, baking, Dogs, Holidays, House plants, nature, Uncategorized, Wildlife | Tagged autumn insects, christmas cactus, grandchildren, holiday baking, little dogs, Mema, moving towards winter, the cranberry custard curd, urban wildlife | Leave a comment

Sugar Shack

Posted on December 19, 2018 by daeja's view

I’m into wild mushrooms. From spring until the end of autumn you might find me foraging around in the forest, hopefully emerging triumphant with a small basket of woodland goodies, yet other times thrilled to have found just one or … Continue reading →

Posted in Are you kidding me?, baking, Cooking, Mushrooms, Uncategorized, Wow! | Tagged candy cap mushrooms, candy caps, cooking with mushrooms, Lacterius rubidus, maple syrup mushrooms, strong smelling candy caps, sweet smelling mushrooms, wild mushrooms | 3 Comments

Waste Not

Posted on May 27, 2016 by daeja's view

After having a conversation with an old friend about the healthful benefits of juicing, my guilt about my packed-away juicer was tweaked just enough that I hauled it back out…..what good is it if you are not using it? In … Continue reading →

Posted in baking, Cooking, Diet, Food, Uncategorized | Tagged carrot juice, Health, juicer, juicing, no waste | 3 Comments

Adventures in Sourdough

Posted on March 24, 2016 by daeja's view

“Why are we paying the price of whole wheat and artisan breads when we could be making it ourselves?” Almost to the day that the Significant Other made this economy-driven announcement, an old bread machine was synchronistically gifted my way. … Continue reading →

Posted in baking, Cooking, Diet, Food, Uncategorized | Tagged bread machine, bread making, fermentation, sourdough bread, sourdough starter, the smell of kimchi | 5 Comments