Four Obsessions: perpetually shifting between cooking, reading, knitti...

Just a warning before you go any further,
I am feeling VERY SHOUTY TODAY.
Almost every afternoon between 2 and 4 pm I need some strong tea to keep me going and push the anxiety and despair that have become such a vibrant part of living in 2018 back into the little lock box in my brain where they live (the little buggers then...

Hey look it's been over a year since I wrote anything here.
In that time I:
got mad

Here's a long and long-delayed update on my 4 Obsessions. Yes, I am still obsessed, and yes, there still are (primarily) four.
Cooking
First off, here is the recipe for curried pumpkin red lentil soup that I promised a bunch of people a while ago and never managed to post. It is easy, fast and damn good....

Closing out the CSA season with three weeks packed into one post. I got sick during week 18 so went minimal; then I got busy and didn't feel inspired to do much beyond basic "use it before it rots cooking."  I end the post with a few reflections on this...