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...]
My Vegetable Love Should Grow
I was grocery shopping this weekend - I lead a wild life - and the sales clerk, who was a woman in her early 30s, held up a leafy vegetable, needing me to identify it so she could punch in the code. It was kale, which she'd never heard of before. "What do you DO with it?" she asked me, … [Read more...]
One For My Baby
Wow, I'm tired this morning. So very tired. NEWBORN BABY TIRED. What's with that? I did get up at FOUR THIRTY in the morning (there's a 4:30 in the morning now? Apparently.) to make breakfast for the participants in the Relay For Life, but that was on Saturday and so it's probably not why I'm still … [Read more...]
The Pie of Failure
One of the very discouraging things about cooking and baking is the grim feeling that a recipe might not turn out when you need it to. Like, oh let's say when your post is due this morning and you got up early to pit cherries - that is the most boring thing to do in the world, by the way. Boring and … [Read more...]
Invalid Cookery And Summer Sickness
This has been one of the most grueling parenting weeks that I can remember, barring the immediately post-partum weeks which I can't even remember now - a nifty biological trick which keeps my family growing. When my husband got home early Friday evening, I crawled into bed and basically slept for … [Read more...]
Gluten Free
We all want our lives to be full of sweet things. Finding out that we need to follow a restricted diet is often a very crushing thing, the knowledge that so many of the pleasurable things in life are now lost to us. My Baby, as you probably know, has Celiac Disease and has to follow a strict … [Read more...]
Not All Salads Are Good For You
I woke up yesterday morning at 6:30 to find The Boy staring down at me intensely. "I'm making you breakfast in bed," he announced. "So you'd better wake up." And that was how I started Mother's Day this year, sitting groggily in bed and eating toaster waffles with LOTS of syrup, … [Read more...]
Hair and Cake
Every day I get to comb through The Baby's hair, which looks like this when it's brushed: ... and like a matted mop of yarn when it's not. Then there's The Boy, who has hair that stands straight up, rudely disregarding the laws of gravity and so needs his hair gelled down and brushed into … [Read more...]
The Secret Language Of Food
As I was taking pictures of slices of pie last night, The Girl grouched that None Of Her Friends' Mothers took pictures of THEIR desserts, which is how you can tell that her life is a Vale Of Sorrows. It was a very good pie - for a long time, I was less then enamored of meringue and suddenly I see … [Read more...]
March Break, Crafts, A 5k, Baking, and More Snow
March Break is over and I have to say that I miss the fun of it. I was working most of the time but my kids were thrilled with the cool activities and tons of playdates. My 5 year old had her fave "big girl" (an 11 year old dream!) babysitter for the week and they spent the whole time … [Read more...]