Easter is here, are you ready? You feasting? If your Sunday includes remembering where you hid that last damned egg, or if it looks something like sleeping until 10:30, lazing in a comfy chair and sipping languidly on your coffee (damn you, I was you once), I really think you should make and then eat … [Read more…]
Purim, the holiday that commemorates Esther’s Old Testament bad-assery was completely off my radar as a kid, as were unfortunately, the cookies below. I grew up in Catholic school, where Old Testament tribe-related stories like this one just didn’t come up a lot. But I’m making up for lost time. This is not a holiday … [Read more…]
If you’re like me, your first introduction to this nut came in the form of an unnaturally bright green ice cream studded with bottom-basement chunks made soggy over time. Which is to say, (if you are like me that is) you never touched the stuff. It took years for me to appreciate the supple, bright … [Read more…]
Hello, friends! It’s National Carrot Cake Day, and carrot cake is absolutely my hands-down final answer unequivocally favorite cake. And I have no time whatsoever to make cake. I have things, guys. Stuff. Wednesdays are like that. I’m planning dinner and am still a little overstuffed from lunch. *Sidenote: One of these days really soon, … [Read more…]
There are so many things they never tell you about becoming a parent. Like every birth scene you’ve ever watched in a movie or on tv is a big fat lie dipped in fantasy. That your belly does not go back down right after the baby arrives. The very real realness that is sustained sleep … [Read more…]
True confession: I have an addiction I feel I may need to get under control. It’s these, people. Community cookbooks are piling up in the corners of my home, beckoning to me from the bookshelves, and calling out to me from any thrift shop, estate sale, and used book store I might be in close … [Read more…]
I really like when an entire month is devoted to a particular food. January is National Soup Month, which after a solid few weeks of plague settling in my home, seems just awesome to me. Did you get that crazy cold/flu/sinus personal fiasco that’s been going around? I really hope not, but if you did, … [Read more…]
Well, how did it go? Christmas, I mean. Whether you celebrate or not, I hope these last few days have been absolutely grand. I haven’t posted in a while -a long while- which I didn’t quite realize until I started writing this post. Five days ago. Yep, five days. I am a really slow typist … [Read more…]
Hey over there! So, is it feeling a little like the calm before the storm over where you are? Literally, the world, after you stop looking at the news and Facebook and breath some of that outside air seems a little quieter and calmer. Maybe it’s just me. Entirely possible. Walking around town yesterday morning … [Read more…]
Can we safely say that we have hit cookie season? I don’t think anyone has made that term official, but let’s just say we’re there. And the thought makes me so happy. Are you feeling perhaps a little stuck as far as what to make? No judgement- this is my third batch of cookies this … [Read more…]