Autumn Beauty & Savory Fare
We made some today. Sequins make life sparkle! I also received a bread maker from a friend’s friend, hardly used. My first loaf of whole wheat bread was quite delicious. I just need to learn to slice...
View ArticleApple Crumble
I’ve wanted to have an apple dessert that doesn’t require the fuss of a crust. Sometimes I just don’t want to bother with making the crust, and Claire wants to help make things too. So I found a...
View ArticleMore Crafts
Leaf turkey with leaves from our yard! Turkey apple made in preschool! Letter I (Island) and i (ice cream) crafts… Indian Corn Paper Bag Town 1 Paper Bag Town 2
View ArticleD-d-d-d-did You Say Sugar?
Today’s project! She ate almost as much candy as she put on the house. And ironically (is it?) she also had a dental appointment this morning (for which she was most calm and cooperative, and her teeth...
View ArticleA Sea Change
I wrote the following on October 20, before I got ahold of Geneen Roth’s book, Women Food and God. I like to eat. I like to eat sweet, salty, and calorie-dense foods. I eat when I am not hungry. I eat...
View ArticleShortbread and Raspberry Heaven
Raspberry Almond Thumbprint Cookies 1 cup butter, softened 2/3 cup white sugar 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup seedless raspberry jam 3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar 3/4...
View ArticlePlaying
Feeling quiet on the blog these days. Did a painting on a 24×36″ canvas — my first one. All that blank white canvas felt a bit daunting, but I did enjoy mooshing paint around. I also used oil pastel on...
View ArticleA New Dish
I’ve decided I need new ways to make couscous dishes. Plain couscous is boring and tasteless. The boxed mixes are ridiculously expensive. Fruity Couscous Salad 2 & 2/3 cups dry whole wheat couscous...
View ArticleFood Is Beautiful
As is friendship. I’m so grateful. I assembled these soup and cookie mixes to donate to our preschool raffle, and to give to friends in gratitude for their practical care during my recent events.
View ArticleNews and Change
Hi dear readers (all 5 of you who are left). I know I hardly post here anymore. But today I have good news to share. The saga of the breast cancer question has been answered. I had the genetic test...
View ArticleNo Half Measures
As my husband says, nothing is ever halfway with me. After reading Michael Pollan’s book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, I’ve wondered exactly how to follow his advice: “Eat food. Not too...
View ArticleWe All Scream
There’s an ice cream truck that rolls through our neighborhood at a speed that makes it impossible to catch if we’re inside or the back yard. We’ve pretty much given up on it. There’s a man who walks...
View ArticleTransformation
We’ve been busy lately. There have been little-girl sleepovers, outings to the park, and a field trip to pick strawberries. So, without further ado, let me show you the results of our latest outing. We...
View ArticleMore Summer Fun
We’ve been busy climbing and splashing and creating! Claire had a total of three weeks of swimming lessons. She is still shy about getting her face in the water and going under water, but she had a...
View ArticleRed Beans and Rice
I think Popeye’s Red Beans and Rice dish is incredibly yummy. I’ve searched for their recipe without luck, and so I’ve been experimenting. I believe I have discovered the closest approximation to their...
View ArticleThe Reason I Love to Bake
There is another reason for the priority of pastry: pastry chefs are the only ones in the kitchen who are alchemists by necessity. Where the rotisseur or the man with the sauté pan does his best work...
View ArticleSimply Pay Attention
Existence is hard; it is literal suffering. It has wonders and joys, amazements and fascinations, yes. And it has love. All of this along with suffering, which happens to us and which we inflict on...
View ArticleEnglish Toffee Recipe
English Toffee 1 cup butter 1.5 cups white sugar 3 Tbsp. water 3 Tbsp. light corn syrup 2 cups toasted almonds (slivers or flakes) 8 oz. semisweet baking chocolate (bar, chips, etc.) Candy thermometer...
View ArticleSweet Connections
My mother had a sister who was two years younger than she. My Aunt Reta. The evening of February 27, 2019, eleven days after her 83rd birthday, Reta decided she wanted a bit of ice cream. She got out...
View ArticleInstead
The Poet’s Occasional Alternative by Grace Paley I was going to write a poem I made a pie instead it took about the same amount of time of course the pie was a final draft a poem would have...
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