For a family gathering yesterday, my mother made angel biscuits. They were wonderful: small, light, delicious. This iPhone photo of the breadbasket hardly shows how good these biscuits were: They’re easy to make, though you have to start the day before you want to serve them. Angel Biscuits 5 cups of self-rising flour 1/3 cup of sugar 2 packages of
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We were in Lhasa for a blue moon–the second full moon that June. We spent part of our Blue Moon Day in the Barkhor, and part of it in a restaurant with a pleasant open gallery overlooking one of the gigantic incense burners outside the Jokhang Temple. The view from there was wonderful, but the more modestly situated Snowlands restaurant
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Let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, but with scrip and scrippage.–Shakespeare, As You Like It My friend Kate and I have started a new blog called Scrippage. It’s an exchange of letters about country life, surviving bad news, surviving generally, getting around in trucks, taking care of horses, and whatever else may evolve as
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