Folks…this recipe and I did not play nicely together. Truly, it wasn’t the recipe’s fault! (And don’t stop reading, because this bread pudding is extremely delicious, I promise, and I will eventually tell you about it!) I think I may have lost my mojo or something. For weeks now, almost everything I lay my hands […]
CSA Week 17: Winging It
Sometimes I look in my fridge and think, “Why is there nothing to eat!?” As I am staring at the shelves piled high with perfectly good food, nothing seems like it would come together quickly, and none of my produce and dairy products and leftovers seem even remotely able to work together. Does that ever […]
My computer recently decided that its SD card reader didn’t exist. When you add that to the fact that two of the three USB ports had already abandoned ship, and that Word recently glitched and erased a whole day’s work on an editing project I was doing, you probably arrive at the conclusion that I […]
A few weeks ago, we went to Montreal with several of my husband’s siblings. Traveling with a baby is…interesting. We had fun, but I am not too eager to fly with Jake again soon (and sorry to everyone who suffered from burst eardrums when my cheerful, angelic child turned into a velociraptor). One of the […]
Veggie “Gyros” with Tzatziki Sauce
Day 3 of working through cucumbers like they are going out of style. Which, of course, they aren’t. Because there are still 6 of them in my fridge. Eek! But this combination is one I will be returning to over and over, even when I am not desperate to put an end to a plague […]
I’ve heard that peaches and cream are a pretty classic combination. Not that I would ever eat it. But when we started getting peaches in our CSA, I knew I wanted to try to make peach ice cream! This recipe is amazing because of its simplicity. No eggs! So no pesky tempering and straining. Just […]
It’s one of my favorite times of the year: National Ice Cream Month! I am celebrating with some delicious, dreamy ice cream, chock full of Oreo cookies. Because what could be better on a sweltering summer day than a nice, big, dripping ice cream cone? Nothing, I think.
Did I tell you that I’ve started keeping a dinner diary? It’s an idea I read about in a fun book called Dinner: A Love Story. Basically, Jenny decided that she didn’t like spending a lot of time and effort making a meal that just vanished forever. She needed a record of it…something needed to […]
Did you know that the English word cherry is actually the result of a misunderstanding? That’s right. Back in the thirteenth century when we were stealing all kinds of words from French (ahem), those Anglo-Saxons heard the French word cherise (modern French cerise) and assumed it must be plural! In fact, it wasn’t…but we hacked […]
When I was a kid, I always ate my spinach. Want to know why? It was always smothered in ranch dressing. I think I actually may have been eating more ranch dressing than spinach, which probably doesn’t even count as eating a vegetable. (As a result of this childhood experience, I am a little horrified […]