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Lydia
A small city kitchen in Boston's South End
Since 2006, food blogging at The Perfect Pantry®, for the first 9 years from my log house kitchen, and now from my city apartment. Publishing e-cookbooks from The Perfect Pantry® kitchen.
Interests: travel, cooking, reading, photography, art (seeing and making), trying to get tomatoes to grow in my herb garden.
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The volunteering life {in-between times}
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Let's get saucy
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Is it a postcard, or is it art?
Posted Mar 11, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Loose Ends
Nothing compares to a handmade gift. I remember every afghan my grandmother crocheted for me, and the sweater my mother made to match my Brownies uniform, and the variegated scarf with a pocket in one end that my husband Ted knit for me. What happens to projects left unfinished when... Continue reading
Posted Mar 1, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Exploratory sketchbook
Posted Feb 24, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Watercress
Posted Feb 20, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Grandmothers united
Posted Feb 19, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Moroccan beef stew (tagine) with apricots and cinnamon
Posted Feb 12, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Perfect reading chairs
Posted Feb 6, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Introducing the Earworm Awards
Some songs stick in my head for weeks at a time, and I've decided it's time to reward those songs with an award, in thanks for the hours of joy they've given me. David Clayton-Thomas wins this week's Earworm Award for And When I Die, a favorite from the 1960s... Continue reading
Posted Jan 29, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Refillable cleaning products
Why not make a new year's resolution (it's not too late) to take better care of our planet? Good Filling helps you do your part, by providing an easy way to refill your own containers with dish soap, hand soap, laundry detergent and all-purpose cleaner from on-site sanitization stations (there's... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Birthday spoon
Posted Jan 16, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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The volunteering life {something old and new}
Posted Jan 12, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Custom jigsaw puzzles
Posted Jan 6, 2023 at Lydia Likes It
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Museum of Bad Art
Posted Dec 28, 2022 at Lydia Likes It
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Seeing in color {green}
Posted Dec 23, 2022 at Lydia Likes It
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Magic hands
Mesmerizing. I just love this. (You might need to click on the play button twice.) Continue reading
Posted Dec 14, 2022 at Lydia Likes It
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Recycled chopsticks. Really.
Posted Dec 3, 2022 at Lydia Likes It
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Andy Borowitz, political humorist
Posted Nov 25, 2022 at Lydia Likes It
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Football or soccer, it's the World Cup
Posted Nov 19, 2022 at Lydia Likes It
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41 years on
Old friends Steve Winwood and Eric Clapton, singing Blind Faith's Can't Find My Way Home in 2010, 41 years after they first recorded it. A bit more mellow, perhaps, but as seductive an earworm as the original version. I love the little smiles they share. I'll get stuck on a... Continue reading
Posted Nov 15, 2022 at Lydia Likes It
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Little Free Library
Posted Nov 11, 2022 at Lydia Likes It
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The volunteering life {when you close one door...}
Posted Nov 6, 2022 at Lydia Likes It
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Paper stories
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Tilty cat food bowls
Posted Oct 25, 2022 at Lydia Likes It
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