🥚 eggs + boards + books
ISSUE #172
MAKING
In an effort to eat more protein, I’ve been buying boxes of hard-boiled eggs from Costco — 16 two-packs, 32 eggs total. Which is… a lot of eggs to get through. 😅
We usually add them to lunch salads or eat them as late-morning / afternoon snacks. They are so convenient – already peeled! – and with a few easy tweaks, they transform into something you’d expect to order as an appetizer at a nice restaurant. Except you made it yourself and didn’t pay twelve bucks.
Here’s the recipe, if you can even call it that:
hard-boiled egg, halved
+
mayo
preferably Kewpie, in a squeeze bottle — plain, wasabi, or smoked
+
furikake*
*You can also experiment with chili crisp, red pepper flakes, crushed potato chips, dukkah, sriracha… you really can’t go wrong here.
LOVING
I found this in a Little Free Library:
A cookbook board book. Squeee!
I’ve never seen one before — I didn’t even know it was a thing! I would never have put those two ideas together, but now… my gears are turning.
Of course, I promptly went down a rabbit hole and found out there are more. 🤯 This one is designed to the specific shape and size of a bag of chocolate chips. There’s another cookie-specific book shaped like — you guessed it — a cookie. Yes, already I ordered one from eBay.* 😬
*Because they were built like tanks, many of them survived the decades in really good condition.
THINKING
I’ve been thinking a LOT about collaboration for the past couple of weeks. I’m working on something past me wishes I’d had and future me will thank me for: CO:LAB – a toolkit and guide for naming what you want, what you bring, and what you’re building together.
I made it for the creative collaborations that start with good energy, but get tripped up when expectations are opaque, roles go unnamed, labor goes unnoticed, or managing the relationship becomes harder than the work itself.
It came from looking back at the not-so-good collaborations, but also the ones that did work. The ones that felt energizing, fair, light, and creatively alive. The ones that felt like lucky breaks.
I started to see the pattern: good collaborations have underlying conditions. CO:LAB is my attempt to make those conditions more visible, repeatable, and usable.
Which makes this feel delightfully meta because I’d love to collaborate with you on the collaboration toolkit.
I have the intro and first three parts in layout now, and I’m sharing the draft while it’s still in development. I’d love to know what resonates, what feels useful, what’s confusing, and what questions you wish someone had asked before a collaboration began.
Take a peek at the draft →
