This past weekend, L and I made Valentine’s Day cookies. Yes, Valentine’s Day was technically over, but we made cookies anyway. Valentine’s Day was on a Friday, you know, and well – it’s just too hard for me to engineer those kinds of projects during the week. But I still wanted to bake with L….
I hope you’ll forgive the fact that the weekly dinner menu is a day late; with two sickies in the house and the smaller one causing sleepless nights, it’s been a rough week. On the up side of things, the weather warmed up again yesterday, and the snowbanks are shrinking quickly here. The weather patterns…
We got at least a foot of snow here overnight, and it’s still coming down hard. E and L both have colds, and I’m thankful we don’t have to stir from the house for any reason. We can just hunker down until it’s all over. The nester in me is thinking about baking bread and…
I’ve been dabbling in the February Cookbook of the Month, Aida Mollenkamp’s Keys to the Kitchen this past week, and I’m finding it’s far more than a cookbook – it’s also a comprehensive manual, a handbook for people who aren’t comfortable past a certain point (like spaghetti with sauce from a jar, maybe) in the kitchen….
I’m so glad it’s Monday again, and Monday isn’t usually a day I’m excited to greet. But I spent seven straight hours yesterday editing E’s graduate thesis (over 100 pages on terrorist groups in the Sahel region of Africa), which was exhausting. Interesting, but exhausting. In retrospect, Week 5 was a bit rough. L had…
It’s Sunday night, and I’m writing about – of all things – oatmeal. Yes, oatmeal. But hey – I warned you last week that this was coming. Now, I’ve always been a fan of oatmeal, and I make it for myself for breakfast fairly often year round. But then, I tried Megan Gordon‘s toasted oatmeal…