Custard

Old-fashioned Baked Custard Pie

3 cups milk

3 eggs

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons flour

[a few drops of almond flavoring]
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Pastry for 1 (9-inch) crust [optional]

Combine sugar and flour. [and salt]
Add beaten eggs.  [and a few drops of almond flavoring]
Bring milk to boiling point [scald] and add gradually to egg mixture [temper].

Pour into an unbaked pie shell and sprinkle nutmeg over the top. [or pour into 2 custard cups and a pie plate]
Bake at 350 for 40-45 minutes or until an inserted silver knife comes out clean. [not liquid, but still jiggles a little when shaken]
Makes 1 (9 inch) pie. [or 2 custard cups and one pie plate]
                                                           Anna B. Showalter, Broadway, Va.

From the Mennonite Community Cookbook, edited by Mary Emma Showalter.

I bake the filling in two custard cups and a pie plate without the crust, in a water bath (bottom of a broiler pan).
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Here I am trying out my new Brause Blue Pumpkin dip pen nib with turquoise acrylic ink.  This paper was not made for dip pens.
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The purple pie plate was a shower gift from my friend from Syria.

Bullet Journal

I began using Ryder Carroll's structured, flexible Bullet Journal system in May of last year. I implemented it in a large, blank, stapled Fabriano notebook, which allowed information to run together and was difficult to index.

A few weeks ago, I filled it and moved to the Bullet Journal community's popular dotted Leuchtturm1917 (in the A5 size), which comes with introductory index pages and page numbers. So far, it seems to be working better, especially for logging what happens (sometimes channeling into collections and habit trackers).

Kara Benz (who blogs at Boho Berry) is doing a helpful Bullet Journal intro series on youtube.

Signs

Amigos

Amigos has a large, new piece of beautiful metal art on the wall, reminding me of turqoise seas and golden sands. The holes in the center are lit from the interior, when a switch is flipped. A straw hat dangling from high rafters swims the air currents.

Bridge Park construction

You can now see a building rising across the river, below the horizon trees on the left.

A few weeks ago, large trees sprang up in the new median and along the road; streetlights appeared. These hundreds of condos and apartments are aimed at single people and couples, including empty nesters, who want a walkable neighborhood with eateries and a park nearby.

I hope the construction and increased population density don't harm the river's ecosystem.

Rose Bush

Quick impression of light on rosebush, in a flower pot, at the entrance to Anna's Greek Cuisine. ( I am at sea without the anchor of an ink line.) Avgolemono soup highly recommended for those who are ill. I need to find an authentic recipe.

Waiting room

Plain City Florist

Once upon a time, this corner housed the public library.
There's a slight warp in this Pentallic paper, since the spill, that affects the photos. Wonder if it can be ironed out.