Jeff Makes Stuff: Strawberry Jam
Since it seems like covid is here to stay for the foreseeable future, this blog may become nothing but “Jeff Makes Stuff” posts - and I think I’m okay with that. This time he made his own strawberry jam to go on the delicious sourdough bread he’s been baking up weekly.
Jeff Makes Stuff: Tater Tot Poutine
Our Canadian friends had recently been talking about poutine, so Jeff decided to make a tater tot version with Beecher’s cheese curds and homemade brown gravy. There were 0 things I disliked about this dish.
Summer Fruits Tank Top
I taught myself to crochet because I found it thrilling to create something with my own hands that brought myself and others joy. Unfortunately, I eventually established a box of ridiculous rules for myself around a hobby that I loved (ex: only allowing myself to crochet amigurumi because I crochet too tightly for clothing, projects should take no more than X amount of time, etc). These unreasonable expectations sucked the joy out of creating and caused me to burn out HARD.
Banana Malasadas!
We recently found out about a Hawaiian food truck on the East side called Hapa Food Company. Their Instagram had delicious looking pictures of banana filled malasadas and that meant only one thing - I had to have them!
Jeff Birthday Weekend Eats 2020
Food is still a thing we’re happy to look forward to - especially for celebrations. Here are some excerpts from Jeff’s birthday weekend:
Cat Paint By Number
I ordered a cat paint by number kit off Amazon back in March because I needed something to do to take my mind off the state of the world. I decided to paint it one color at a time and take a picture after each color to put together at the end thinking that would be fun.
Jeff Makes Stuff: Hot Sauce Edition
We apparently consume a lot of YouTube videos - particularly in the food category. One of a growing list of favorites is Joshua Weissman’s channel. Jeff recently watched his video on how to ferment and make hot sauce and was inspired to make his own.