Tomatilla!

NaNoWriMo starts in a little under four hours. I may stay up just to officially get started. Or I may not…

Over the next thirty days you can follow my progress on my The Shooting Match website.

We have happy kids. Halloween has been a big success. Grace was a colonial girl with a lovely satin dress and a mob cap and Jan made her little stuffed ferret an outfit to match. Amelia was Medusa with hair coiled like snakes and painted green and rubber snakes embedded in it and a gold [...]

This may have to remain a trade secret. Jan says it makes up 50% of her bodymass and I know that really it is the only reason she puts up with me. Well, that and warming up her cold feet…

Anyway, the reason that Jan likes the popcorn so much is that I make REAL popcorn. [...]

It’s time to break out the ramen noodle idea again. The girls want me to write a ramen noodle cookbook where every recipe has ramen noodles as a foundation. So I’m going to try to start tomorrow with ramen noodles cooked in chicken broth with an egg poached in it at the end.

Halloween is almost here so tonight was the night to sit down with the girls and carve pumpkins. Jan and I stayed with straightforward designs although hers is very avant garde and mine is very traditional. The girls went crazy as usual and theirs look great. We put on a thunderstorm CD really really loud [...]

Nothing to do with food for once!

The first two (and smallest) parts of the grand fencing project are almost done. The front fence on the right of our house is up but we need four more boards to finish it. This is a ‘good neighbour’ fence – the same on both sides and Jan and [...]

Writing that is…NaNoWriMo is almost upon us. Check out my NaNoWriMo site, The Shooting Match.

I spent Saturday on a real tear. First was Grace’s soccer game. Our first loss. No real surprise there – bound to lose one after all. But I was annoyed that the other team set out their stall so much to win at all costs. There was a lot of dirty play – fortunately NOT [...]

Three magic ingredients (and two more at are less important) that conjure up the perfect comfort food in my family. We started making this when the kids were just old enough to eat solid food this small and it has been a favorite ever since. It goes with everything, it’s easy and the ingredients can [...]

Although I tend to write about MY cooking and ignore everybody else’s, I am not in fact the ONLY person in my household to do any cooking, although I do do the majority of it. My eternal other, Jan, is a kick-ass cook in her own right and she reminded us all of it yesterday. [...]