Eleven days ago, a friend of mine brought me some Amish Friendship Bread Starter. "Now you can write about it!" she said. She's never read any of my blogs - they don't have a computer at home as a conscious decision, which boggles my mind. I am BOGGLED by this. But she's completely … [Read more...]
On Her Way
School day mornings are always frantically harried at my house - making sure that my older two kids are awake and fed and clean and have school lunches and signed handouts and agendas and love notes in their lunches and homework packed (and completed) and clean faces and brushed teeth and tidy hair … [Read more...]
Almost Back To School
My kids head back to school on Wednesday - an odd day to start back - and thus starts my yearly struggle to keep them fed during the school day. The children's school board has instituted the odd "Balanced School Day", which divides the day into three blocks of extended "teaching … [Read more...]
A Magical Supper Making Tour
I frequently press my husband into service while I'm making supper - it helps speed along food preparation and I like his company. For instance, last night, I made him dice up some pears, as this Awesome Action Shot will show you: Slicing Pears ACTION SHOT! We bought the pears in a wee, cunning … [Read more...]
Stones and soup
We were away for the weekend, and it was a good, GOOD time. I personally played Singing Star with my brother and sister-in-law so much that my voice is still hoarse and raspy today. I also spent all of our money and now we are paupers. Well-dressed paupers. GOOD times. The ride home yesterday … [Read more...]
Not A Sweet Post
My grandmother and I were talking about sugar yesterday, and she said that she used to make dessert for her skinny, skinny family every day. I make dessert about twice a week, I said, which caused my oldest child, Miss Snortypants, to guffaw. "Twice a week?" she said. "Nuh-uh. More … [Read more...]
We Have A Winner!
Congratulations, Holly Sisson! Cuisinart's gorgeous pressure cooker will soon be headed your way! That was fun - I'll have to do more giveaways. I am so, so frazzled this morning. Frazzled and exhausted. We went to a family reunion this weekend - my paternal grandmother's relatives - and it was … [Read more...]
Sunday Night Suppers AND NOW A GIVEAWAY
So last night, we were maybe 20 minutes from having supper ready and The Girl said, really forlornly "Are you going to make the brown and wild rice mix that I bought with my allowance?" And then I died right there of adorableness because I have a child who buys fancy rice with her … [Read more...]
A Burning Question
I normally have tons of cooking adventures to write about, but this week the most adventurous thing that happened to me was burning my arm quite badly while making Rice Krispie squares - and the irony was that I was making them because I didn't want to make anything more complicated. Oh ha ha, me! … [Read more...]
Unsummer
Someone forwarded me this article on chocolate chip cookies, and I read it with a great deal of interest - did letting the batter rest for 36 hours make a flavor difference? So I dutifully made a batch of cookies, following their recipe - minus the expensive "bittersweet chocolate discs" … [Read more...]