You all know that I’m cheap, but I don’t go around begging for free stuff. There are a ton of “Mommy Blogs” out there packed with giveaways and coupon codes and product reviews, and I’ll do it occasionally, but it’s not really my cuppa. I’ll do a giveaway if I think it’s something that you’ll … [Read more…]
We didn’t do tons of planning for our vacation, but we knew our first priority, food-wise. Rick Bayless. I’ve mentioned before that we are big fans of his cookbooks, even though we haven’t caught many of his shows. And he’s from Chicago, with a bunch of restaurants there. Of course, by the time I called … [Read more…]
J and I spent the morning picking raspberries at Indian Ladder Farm. It was just the two of us because Cute W and M got an early start on a day-long soccer tournament. For all Cute W’s big talk about how important it is to take a break from a sport for a while … [Read more…]
Cute W loves cinnamon rolls. We’ve always made the pre-packaged kind, which I don’t love. It leaves that gross-tastic coating of fake on my tongue. So for Father’s Day I decided to try to go homemade with this recipe from allrecipes.com. Oh, they were delicious. And not too hard to make. I followed a reviewer’s … [Read more…]
It’s a beautiful day for a bike ride, and the kids were eager to get out to the Strawberry Festival on Upper Union Street. Part of the early plan was to purchase some friends for Madison, our surviving goldfish, but at Union Street Aquarium the guy effectively scared us that our solo fish was going … [Read more…]
Last night at dinner we started talking about making butter. I don’t know why. I think J started it by asking, “What’s butter made of?” Milk, Cute W and I answered. You just churn the butter and the fat in the milk sort of clots together to form butter. Maybe that’s what I said, because … [Read more…]
Last year I took a year off from participating in a CSA because I was a bit overscheduled and I didn’t think that I could handle the Massive Produce Influx that a CSA can involve. But this year the stars aligned and it seemed that The Universe wanted me to get o a CSA share, … [Read more…]
Our schedule continues to be crazy, especially at dinnertime, so I’ve been trying a bunch of new slow cooker recipes. I thought I’d share some links. The clear winner among our new recipes was this Chickpeas in Curried Coconut Broth recipe from Oxmoor House on the My Recipes site. In fact, our only problem … [Read more…]
While in Savannah in February, I was sitting next to my sister, who had a big plate of delicious shrimp and grits in front of her. I’d had them before, so I knew they were good, but she just shook her head. “They’re not as good as Dad’s. You have to get him to make … [Read more…]
Whenever we drive to and from Georgia to visit the parents, we stop for barbecue. On our way south this year, our efforts were thwarted. We stopped at one place that had gotten high ratings but was pretty much mediocre and, inconceivably, was out of ribs. Then we stopped at Smithfield’s based on Yelp ratings … [Read more…]
