Same low protein, less chlorine
I am unreasonably excited that King Arthur Flour is coming out with an unbleached cake flour. I love their bread flour, and my entirely-uneducated-bias is against bleached flours. I'm really hopeful that this shows up in my local food store. Sadly, I cannot even find regular cake flour in my local food store, so my hopes are not too high. Anyone who live around me have suggestions of where I can get cake flour around here? My Cake Bible has been pouting at me every time I use regular all-purpose in a birthday cake, but I cannot bring myself to order flour over the internet.
The latest issue of Knitty featured an adorable pattern for 
For this particular nautiloid, I used Red Heart worsted weight acrylic leftovers, with a dark green head and alternating rows of red and orange for the body. I wasn't sure how the alternated color rows would look - they're sort of hard to see even in the pattern images, but it really adds to the spiral effect. The biggest tip I have for making the pattern is to make sure you knit fairly tight as you go along, so that the stuffing doesn't show through, and then to stuff firmly, so the spiral shape really holds up.
Many of the journals and weblogs I read have been sharing their pictures of spring, celebrating the warmth and flowers and green, and I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon. There was a particuarly lovely view off my deck this morning, I think. We'd only accumulated three to four inches by this time, but don't worry, it didn't actually stop snowing until early evening.
I hid from last weeks parting blast from winter by watching Buffy re-runs and knitting this vest, dubbed the Zipper "See My" Vest due to the spontaneous outbursts from the Simpson's soundtrack that this project seemed to enduce in onlookers. My 
I'm way overdue in finally photographing the quilt I made over the holidays, so to make up for it, I've put together a fairly extensive write-up about this 
To borrow a phrase from a friend of mine, I am insufferably proud of my latest craft achievment. I've been on a bit of a knitting kick after discovering Elizabeth Zimmerman's books and falling in love with them, and I just finished my first sweater. It's the "Ski Sweater in Color Patterns" from Zimmerman's book Knitting Without Tears, which I would recommend to anyone looking to get beyond scarves and learn some intuition for garment design (the third word in the title lays the stress on the "e" rather than the "a", in case you're a smart alec like my brother and were going to ask...). I made the sweater with Lion Brand Wool-Ease in Ranch Red and Black; I think it took five skeins of red and four of black. I love working with Wool-Ease, and for a first sweater I wanted something cheaper than the expensive boutique yarns (and Wool-Ease isn't too much more than a nice acrylic) but a nice enough yarn I would really wear the sweater. The 15% wool makes the texture nice, and it's a fairly thin yarn so the sweater didn't turn out too bulky - particularly nice since there's always an extra strand being carried along the backside. I just noticed their coming out with Wool-Ease Sport and I'm planning on grabbing a couple of balls to make socks (I've had my eye on the Highland knee sock pattern in Folk Solks but am a bit intimidated). 
By the way, a comment below reminded me that some people don't like cast iron because they were told you can't wash it with soap. You absolutely can use soap in cast iron - just use a gentle liquid soap and don't scour, then dry thoroughly. And when I started using my own I remembered another oddity - don't panic when, the first time you use yours, it appears that you've horribly burned the bottom. Cast iron is silvery gray when you buy it, but well used cast iron is very dark black - obviously, there's a transition period. You can see in this picture how much it looks like I just ruined my pan, but it's fine (though it would appear that I didn't let it heat very evenly...) Eventually, the whole pan will change color, but don't worry if even after a dozen uses it still looks splotchy.