all shipped out
The last of the Christmas/Hanukkah orders are shipped out. If you didn't get around to ordering yet: sorry! I won't be shipping more pottery orders until January 3.…
Read Morechallah for Christmas
(this is a reprint of a recipe post from 2 years ago) For Christmas Eve dinner this year I decided on a "Russian Jewish" theme. Partly this was out of a desire to have all of he food ready and waiting well before our guests were due…
Read Moreglaze tests Dec. 2014, part 2
... continued from part 1 One glaze I used to have when I fired cone 10 electric which I really miss was one I called Verdigris. It was based on a Val Cushing Cornwall stone matt glaze recipe, with tin and copper so that the glaze was actually bronze: I've been…
Read Moreglaze tests Dec. 2014, part 1
Folks who have visited me at a booth or Open Studios know that I make my own glazes. I find commercial glazes to be both inferior and exhorbitantly expensive, and I learned pottery back when they simply weren't available. So it's all glazes I formulate, or mix based on others'…
Read Morenon-traditional Thanksgiving viii, part 2
Second Course (continued from Part I) The main choice I had to make for the second course was tagine vs. couscous. While I quite enjoy a good couscous — and let's face it, a major holiday is the only time I'll ever make couscous from scratch — I really wanted…
Read Morenon-traditional Thanksgiving viii, part 1
One thing that's saved our holidays is that my in-laws don't like turkey either. I suspect a lot of Americans don't really like turkey whether they eat it or not; after all, why would people be deep-frying it if turkey actually tasted good? Anyway, eight or nine years ago we…
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