This Space for Rent

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

—orc Fri Aug 29 23:51:41 2025

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

—orc Fri Aug 22 23:58:20 2025

Turkee

—orc Thu Aug 21 23:56:19 2025

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

The only picture of dust mite I managed to get after a long time fighting with the camera & upload process. This is pie #14 – another cherry pie from an abnormally long pie cherry season. Not that I’m going to complain, oh no, but the freezer is starting to get filled with frozen pie cherries :-)

—orc Fri Aug 15 23:58:12 2025

“decaf” shepherd’s pie

Pie #11 is a crustless shepherd’s pie with mushrooms, soybeans, and (fresh farmer’s market) carrots. Crusts are delicious, but they triple the calories in the pie and it’s all fat and starches, which have been helping me maintain my pleasing pear shape, which I don’t want because I’ve outgrown too many of my skirts (I, selfishly, don’t want a muffin top or having the wasteband of the skirt digging into my waist.)

Fortunately, a crustless pie is perfectly cromulent, and if I lose my mind and eat the entire pie it’s only about 900 kcal.

This makes a really simple recipe; dump 3 cups of chopped mushrooms into a greased (w/ spray oil) pan, layer with 12 oz of soybeans, then a cup or so of thinly sliced carrots, and top with mashed potatos (I use Bob’s potato flakes to make them; 2 2/3 cup of potato flakes, 3 cups of water, 1 cup of oatmilk, and a teaspoon of salt – going the potato flake route means I can pour the potatoes onto the pie before they fully congeal) and then bake at 350 for 70 minutes.

—orc Mon Aug 11 21:36:23 2025

Two more pies (from last week)

Pie #9 was a shepherd’s pie, and it was half gone before pie #10 (a cherry/peach pie) came out of the oven, but pie #10 was gone before pie #9 was.

—orc Mon Aug 11 01:12:10 2025

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

Dust Mite came with us when we went to Maryhill this week. And, yes, it was pretty windy there, particularly around Sam Hill’s formstonehenge, which is an absolutely ridiculous brutalist replica of the stonehenge on Terf Island.

—orc Fri Aug 8 20:34:53 2025

Number eight in a series – one more shepherd’s pie

Another shepherd’s pie, this one with mushrooms, peas, and carrots instead of vegan meat & peas. The crust is pretty hard (I made a ball of crust last monday, didn’t get around to cooking with it until wednesday, and then we were first down at Silver Falls, then there was a birthday pie & the mekons) but still tasty, and man the filling is so much tastier than the vegan meat I’d used in the last one.

—orc Sun Aug 3 23:14:00 2025

Friday Dust Mite Blogging™

—orc Fri Aug 1 19:46:16 2025