The Small Work
AlexandraThoughts from home about making things, feeding family, and living in the quiet middle.
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What makes a recipe our own?
I love to see new things happening on Substack and was excited to see the new Recipe Embed option popping up.
If you haven’t seen it yet, a new recipe embedding option is currently in beta testing. All you have to do is open up a new post...
On getting through
The last few weeks have been a lot. I don’t know about you but when things just start to overwhelm me and bring me down, any chance of being creative just goes out the window. I was hoping I was turning a corner but then today was one of th...
I can name two children, but not my sourdough starter.
Gather round kids, and let me tell you the story of how I met your… sourdough starter.
The year was 2025, and I was in the throes of postpartum. So like any sleep deprived, delulu, overwhelmed mother - I made a sourdough starter, another b...
Taking my eye off the (dough)ball
If it worked yesterday, why wouldn’t it work today?
We just had a flurry of snow and ice hit us this week which meant being more stuck inside than usual. If there’s one thing those of us living in Ireland do when a storm/weather event of e...
Beginning in the Middle
I’m starting this without a clear beginning.
There’s no project to complete, or goal to achieve, just a sense that I want to pay closer attention to the things I make and do in the middle of my days. The meals that appear again and again....
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Writer in training. In the trenches of parenthood.
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