Dumplings are like little drops of carb heaven to me, but it never occurred to me to turn them into a dessert. This recipe for Blackberry Dumplings ends up resembling something like a dessert soup because the blackberry juice never thickens. Sounds like the perfect match for a summer dinner party if you ask me.
:: recipe and photo via eat make read
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I can hardly wait to see this. Animals are the best (especially baby animals). And this film looks absolutely amazing. It opens today. If you haven’t seen the trailer yet, check it out.
I try to do what I can to make a difference, but there always seems to be so much more. At home I recycle, turn off lights when I leave a room, turn off the water while I brush my teeth and use low flow shower heads. I also use compact fluorescent light bulbs as much as possible. Plans are in the works to start a small compost heap. And at work we’ve instituted recycling bins. (Which is only worth mentioning because we’re a tiny company.) These little things are so easy to do and quickly become a habit.
What do you do to try and help the planet?
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Posted In holidaysIf you get a chance definitely check out the portfolio of Petter Hanberger. He’s pretty much the definition of creative – the breadth of his work is amazing. These two are my favorite projects on his site.
67 pieces of artwork. All handfolded, packaged signed and numbered by hand. I hope they will give the tea and its bag a new meaning for me and anyone else who gets one.
Petite France is bakery/pastry/lunch cafe at Kungsholmen in Stockholm. They are well known in the neighborhood for high quality and a genuine passion for pastries. We found the word “meet” relevant to resume Petite France; the dough meets the baker, the costumer meets the cafe, the bread meets the costumer, France meets Sweden etc. The result was a number of patterns meeting in a Petite France patchwork. Collaboration with Zorica Radovic.
Refreshingly light Mint Panna Cottas with Blackberry Coulis make for a perfect warm weather after dinner treat. Or you can look at it this way – they’re healthy and full of calcium, so you’re really doing yourself a favor!
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Posted In recipesHere’s the back story of my cabinet.
This small china cabinet sat in my grandparents’ basement for a good 40 years before I got my hands on it. How it got there is another story: my dad found it waiting to be picked up by the garbage truck in front of a neighbor’s house. He used it to display his model collection (so cute!) for a few years before it was relegated to the depths of the basement. There it languished and accumulated old carpeting tools and other bits and pieces. And a ream of old typing paper, which is what I remember it most for.
A few years ago I was living in Cleveland and getting ready to move to Oklahoma City. I asked my grandma about the old cabinet in the basement and if she wanted it any longer. My dad drove it up to my apartment in the back of his pick-up and it was mine. And it sat in a garage for almost three years.
I knew something needed to be done to make it presentable (the years in the basement hadn’t been kind), but didn’t think the wood would stand up to refinishing. So painting it was. And glossy black it became. It now houses the majority of my barware collection. I love how the stainless steel pops against the black!
The relief prints of Bryan Nash Gill have made their rounds as of late, but I couldn’t not share on the off chance you hadn’t seen them yet. They’re just that good. Bryan uses a relief and rubbing technique to create these stunning cross-sections of trees. This particular print is Hemlock-82 and the actual size is a gargantuan 52 x 38.5″.
It really is nice to be nice. Especially when it comes down to that whole karma thing.
