Blunder Woman: Ambition Exceeds Ability

If there's one trait I don't like to acknowledge in myself it's laziness. It's there, though, and every time I stand in the back yard staring out at the burgeoning weeds I sigh and think "that's going to take forever to fix up". Sometimes I grab my gardening gloves and trudge out there to deal with some of it anyway, but... sometimes I go inside and sit in front of the tv with my knitting instead. And if there's one thing I've learned in the months since my last Blunder Woman admissions it's that I have way more ideas than dedication to following through on them.

It's time to fess up on what didn't work this winter.

Recipe: Hearty Breakfast Wrap

Do you like breakfast, and food you can eat without cutlery? ME TOO. Today I'm going to show you my much-refined breakfast wrap and help get you started on a more convenient sort of breakfast food.

Spring is Happening!

Spring has barely arrived but the garden is not wasting any time. Roses I pruned a few weeks ago already have buds on them. Bees are swarming around the lavender. Flowers I didn't know I even had have bloomed and it's just so pleasantly warm. Spring is HERE!

Oh, and - contain your excitement, folks - the artichoke is flowering.

Chard at Work

Chard! This "bitter, pungent and slightly salty" relative of beets and spinach has been, slowly but steadily, settling in to the bed beside my perpetual monster spinach for a few months now. I have the rainbow variety, so my plants have a mix of green, red and yellow stems - it's really pretty! But also it just seems like such a "fancy" ingredient. I don't know what to do with it.

Luckily, Martha Stewart has me covered (not a phrase I ever thought I'd say): it's time for some chard pasta.