This week, Sarah and I were feeling super laid back. We started our lunch planning at noon on the day of. (Just for context, we typically start cooking around 11.) Our conversation went something like this: Sarah: I just woke up. (cut to me, crumbling inside with jealousy) Me: I have a headache. Let’s make something […]
So it’s Spring, which is a beautiful thing. Except that my children have been rising with the sun. The very early sun. Before we go any further, I must come out as strongly against The Morning. Specifically, all of the hours before 8:00 am. I cannot get behind anything that causes me to get up […]
My husband has been asking to make cheese danish for years. You’d think I would have taken him up on that right away! I love to bake. I love to be bossy in the kitchen. I love cheese danish. But for some reason, I felt intimidated. Do you ever feel paralyzed by the desire to […]
It may surprise you to learn that I don’t actually eat a lot of vegetables. I can go entire days without a vegetable, if you don’t count the tomato sauce in pizza. The problem obviously isn’t that I don’t like vegetables…I love them! The real problem is that I am busy and tired, and preparing […]
I know you are probably getting sick of sweets from me. And I was all geared up to share a few simple savories…but then I realized it’s going to be Valentine’s day very soon. And I have a long tradition of covering you in chocolate for Valentine’s day. Chocolate is, after all, one of my first […]
One of the hardest parts of giving up dairy has been figuring out what to eat for breakfast. There have been a lot of mornings in the last month and a half that found me staring listlessly into the open refrigerator for five minutes, walking away grumpily, going back two times, and then opting to […]
When I was a kid and someone brought out a carrot cake at a birthday party or celebration, I would seriously mope. No offense if carrot cake is your favorite…but who wants vegetable-flavored cake? Not even cream cheese frosting can redeem that. Cake should be rich and sweet with a light but even crumb. There […]
We like pancakes. We like them so much that we have started eating them every week. It’s a delicious ritual. Pancakes are pretty phenomenal, aren’t they? Do you know what makes pancakes more phenomenal (if you are 3 years old)? Sprinkles! And…sshh…do you know what makes them more phenomenal if you are 30 years old? […]
As you may be aware, my husband and I have radically different food tastes. If he could eat whatever he wanted for the rest of his life, he would be staring down a long succession of barbecues, charcuterie, spicy chicken wings, corned beef and cabbage, anything that goes well with rice (basically all Asian cuisines, […]
Our family has started a weekend breakfast tradition. It’s fairly surprising, actually, given my husband’s general apathy toward keeping traditions AND his venomous hatred for the morning…but on Saturdays, bright and early, when I holler up the stairs that pancakes or French toast are ready, he immediately appears and we have a special family breakfast! […]