Ode to Tuscany-pasta with a Spanish wine sidekick, hah!

I'm going to be honest: this pasta was TO DIE FOR. We ate all but two lone rigatoni (but I think T ate them while doing dishes). Anyway, I will post this recipe (entitled Em-i-lis' Ode to Tuscany) but had to share the in-progress pics. Think: garlic, onions, sweet Italian sausage, preserved lemon, toasted fennel, kale, mascarpone. And y'all, if you have not had the Muga Reserva Rioja, it is just so delicious. You must go get some. You can almost chew it but in a velvety, lovely way. Bene, buono!

Useful item for your car, cheesecake

Peeps, the cheesecake is even better the second day. Next time I make it, I'm going to make it a day in advance. Oh my lord. Fortunately, a friend suggested taking some off my hands, and I am all too thrilled to pawn some off on her. Whew!  As you might recall, the last time I crafted this delicacy, I ate 75% myself in 2-3 days. Yikes. Do you carry a roll of packaging tape in your car? I don't know why I started doing so, but I cannot tell you how often I've needed and been thrilled to have it. Food for thought.

Off to fold clothes. I love cleaning/organizing Sundays. They're a nice way to head into a week. I just mounted all the new student photos for hanging tomorrow- what darling children! I really do love kids; I just want to run away from my own on occasion. And I just dust-bustered every dust bunny I saw which was a not insignificant number. How do they accumulate so quickly? I mean, Oliver is pretty obsessed with the vacuum cleaner, to the point where it's really getting tattered and worn. I think we'll need to replace it soon. But back to the point- where in the sam do all these dust-bunnies come from???