Kiva loans

I have microlent to:

Shamim Akhtar Nasar Ahmad Group


Shamim Akhtar Nasar Ahmad Group
Location:Pakistan, Raiwind
Activity:Transportation

Oyunchimeg Norpil


Oyunchimeg Norpil
Location:Mongolia, Arhangai
Activity:Internet Cafe

Hem Sovann


Hem Sovann
Location:Cambodia, Batambong
Activity:Services

In which I have hopefully triumphed over February.

I don’t want to jinx anything, as there are still 10 days left (including today), but I think I have just about beaten this whole February business. And I know this because I made lemon-garlic lamb chops with yogurt sauce last night.

Dinners this month have been okay, if a bit perfunctory (with the notable [...]

Tuna Salad (Minus The Mercury)

I love tuna salad. Canned white tuna, with minced celery and pickle, some mayonnaise and maybe a few capers… if I could eat that as often as I’d like, I’d end up as mad as a hatter (or maybe just as mad as Jeremy Piven) due to the elevated levels of mercury in canned tuna. [...]

Apology soup

When I was a kid, I always thought my grandfather had some odd eating habits. He liked his apple pie with Cheddar cheese. He grated his own Parmesan at the dinner table (which we all politely declined, preferring the powdery stuff in the green can). And—which I thought was the weirdest of all—sometimes he would [...]

Biscuits? Meh.

I mean, they look okay (despite some truly lackluster photography on my part). My husband said they were good but I found these biscuits dry and bland.

I won’t link directly to the recipe I adapted from (for fear of starting an intermural food blog smackdown), but it went something like this:

- 2 cups [...]

When life gives you frozen corn, make chowder.

Okay, I haven’t been a very good food blogger of late. Truth be told, there’s been some belt-tightening going on in Maison Gezellig. Nothing dire, just finding we need to cut back on some expenses and food is one of the easiest places to start.

Unfortunately, making dinner out of whatever you find hanging [...]