i love cooking

and i especially love cooking for people. i made pizza tonight and stuffed bell peppers. stuffed bell peppers is definitely becoming one of my favorite foods to cook and eat. especially with caribou. yum. freaking yum. i added some onions and mushrooms to the filling today. i think i should saute up some minced garlic next time and toss it in there. i'm drooling just thinking about it.

lee and odie brought banana bread and blueberry pie for dessert. they picked blueberries yesterday and oh man the pie was so freaking amazing i had two pieces. :) perfy end to the dinner. especially with french vanilla ice cream. i'm really happy that we had two pieces of pie left over. i guarentee you i'll be eating one tomorrow, if not later on this evening.

i haven't been able to cook for the last two weeks because of all the traveling that i was doing. denver for a week and anchorage for a week after that. i don't think i've ever cooked when i've been traveling. which kinda sucks because i end up cooking for the same people over and over again. and i don't think they mind but it'd be fun to change up my audience. and then i would get different opinions on improving my favorite recipes. which i realize is fairly dorky.

i think i'm still uncertain about cooking for strangers but i am mostly confident cooking for friends. i know for the longest time i didn't really feel comfortable cooking for anyone except for myself because i used to rush things and fuck things up all the time. even when i was trying sooooper hard. although i think part of it is that i've relaxed about cooking and just kind of go with it and roll with the punches, sometimes things don't turn out quite right but there are little things you can do to fix them and with enough practice you figure out what they are.

i'm wearing wool socks right now and my feel are super hot.

Things to do

Pick beach strawberries.

Pick blueberries.

Pick salmonberries.

Pick blackberries.

Pick cranberries.

Well you get the idea. :)


Bottle my apple wine and then start blueberry rhubarb wine.

Put fish away with Momma.

Make fireweed jelly.

Clean out sheds.