"Can we have French toast with bacon for brunch, please?" Oliver's eyes always gleam when he asks me for foods like this, and I'm obliging him, as a Last Request. He knows what kind of yummy it's going to be. And he knew after that special stop at the one grocery store that carries the gorgeous … [Read more...]
Baking Bread
Earlier this week my daughter and I were invited to a mother-daughter bread-baking event led by a Challah (egg bread) "expert" that we now affectionately now call Auntie Lee.Years ago, I won a bread maker in a silent auction and for a little while, made my own bread. But pouring the … [Read more...]
Challah, Affluenza & Dean McDermott
Af-flu-en-za [af-floo-en-zuh] -noun. 1. The affectation of over-affluence on western culture, typified by over-indulgence in North America et al. 2. What happens when you simply have too much stuff. A friend of mine recently said that one of our biggest problems in … [Read more...]