Cooking, Life, Books and Words — sometimes with recipes.
Looking back I’ve been whining a lot lately. That’s probably because I’m gettting over the flu and since it is such a rare event that I get the flu, I tend to overreact and whinge…
Announcing the “Paper Chef” event. You have undoubtedly heard of diamond anniversaries and golden anniversaries. There are in fact a whole series of these names to mark special occasions. The diamond and golden anniversaries are…
There are probably a few things that appear at over 70% of all American Thanksgiving meals, but they are very few. One, of course, is the centerpiece, the product of inbreeding and factory farming and…
…no – no gothic adventures. Just overwhelming dreariness. I am not going to do an entry for IMBB this time even though I have lots of good cookie recipes. I just don’t have time (or…
It has been a big, big week. Almost too big. Amelia was the lead in the school play – ‘Little Women’ – and was fantastic. I actually got tired of other parents coming up to…
The next IMBB has been announced! Alberto of Il Forno is the ringmaster of these events and has picked the Domestic Goddess to be up next and her topic is cookies. Cookies are one of…
Now that the election is over and I am feeling depressed I will seek solace in the way I usually do – with food. Lately I have been eating a LOT of baked butternut squash,…