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I moved out of my parents' home when I was 19 - ever the independent spirit. I quickly learned it was a matter of either learning to cook or starving. Fast-food really was not an option because back then (1975) there was not a fast-food joint on every corner like there is now. There were, like...

The thing with tap water in L.A. is that it just tastes Gawd-awful. Always has a metallic-musty aftertaste. I really cannot drink it. So, yes, I am one of those ecology-hating pretentious queens who runs around with bottled water. It's probably true that City water is cleaner than bottled but...

AMAZING is right!! Sewing machines have come a long way haven't they. I had no idea they were now (or could be) computer-interfaced. As to the question about Stan Kann's "Sweeper Bag Suit," see photo.

Well, even Tippi Hedron has had problems. Recently, one of her employees was badly mauled by a bengal tiger. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20071204/tiger-attack/

And the results! this photo is deceiving from the angle -- the bowl is deeper than it appears, and the pile of potatoes is higher--

Ready for whipping

The final product

The baked potatoes

Puréeing in the blender

The roasted garlic fresh out of the oven!

No Garlic Mashed Potatoes? Not here either! For the past several years, Arlee and I have gone to a good friend's house for Christmas dinner. One of the things I have always brought was Garlic Mashed Potatoes. It finally dawned on me last year that the hostess never ate any potatoes. I asked her...

P.S.: Fred, your quilts are stunning! I especially love your newest "geometric" one. Wouldn't it be fun to make a quilt out of a bunch of vintage vacuum cleaner bags?!

Electrolux Print on my Bedroom Wall This 26 x 46 inch print on my wall is entitled "Michael Pedroni / Mezzotint Montage Prints." It's an art poster from a series of mezzotints the artist (Michael Pedroni) created for an art exhibition in the late 1980s that ran, among other places, at UCLA. I...

A couple of months ago we had a nice thread on quilts. Thot I'd show y'all a Christmas present I gave myself -- a beautiful (new) handmade quilt! It's lovely and fits right in with the colors in my bedroom since purple is my favorite color. Note the painting on the wall above the bed - painted...

Well, here I am, outside in the back yard where it's about, what, 70 degrees ... wrapping Christmas presents! This seemed so incongruous even to me, even after living in Los Angeles for 27 years (Oh Wow, where does the time go??!), that I felt it worth documenting and, yes, gloating about a...

What about the one about hair growing on the palm of your hands.......