Fall baking season began last week. Shannon has been experimenting with recipes from the King Arthur Flour Baking Sheet magazine. Last week, she made cheese bread, pineapple sweet rolls, and blueberry streusel bars. Today, she made Blue-Cheese Bacon Bread. I help. I buy the ingredients that she tells me she [...]
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Fall Baking Season
Posted in Food and Drink on September 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Food
Posted in Food and Drink on June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I tried two new recipes yesterday; both turned out yummy.
Southwestern Risotto:
Gingered Blueberry Shortcake:
Happy Mother’s Day!
Posted in Food and Drink on May 10, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I made you a cupcake for Mother’s Day. And Shannon took pictures:
If you want the recipe (they were a lot of trouble, you probably don’t), you can find it on Chockylit’s Cupcake blog. They are German Chocolate Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Glaze. I made the Magnolia recipe which she described in comment [...]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Posted in Food and Drink on March 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Every year I say I’m going to make shamrock cookies. And every year, I don’t have a shamrock cookie cutter.
Guess what I bought at Michael’s last week? Hint: The kids used it today to make our favorite sugar cookies.
Sweets for the sweet
Posted in Food and Drink on February 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Here’s what was on our Valentine’s Day menu:
For breakfast, Lemon-Ginger Scones.
For elevenses, Blackberry Crunch Bars.
You gotta be thinking to yourself, “Why aren’t those people much fatter than they are?” Well, we do eat the occasional salad, I just don’t take pictures.
Happy 13th Birthday, Will!
Posted in Food and Drink, kidlets on February 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I don’t take pictures of people anymore. Only food. Here’s what Shannon made for Will’s birthday, today!
The recipe is for Cookies & Cream Cake, from the Cake Mix Doctor’s Chocolate book.
It’s like eating baby angels
Posted in Food and Drink on February 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Tim Hawkins is a comedian who we’ve seen on video. You can see snippets of his acts on Youtube, if you don’t mind watching pirated clips. In one of his routines, he describes Krispy Kreme donuts thusly: “It’s like eating baby angels!”
I made kolaches yesterday. It was rather time-consuming – I told [...]
Sushi!
Posted in Food and Drink on February 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We made sushi last night. It was our first time trying this at home, and we were moderately successful! We didn’t do any raw fish because we’ve been told that you have to buy special sushi-quality fish at a fishmonger 30 miles away. Hmm, that’s not likely to happen.
We made up some [...]
Never hold back
Posted in Food and Drink on February 2, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I haven’t been blogging much lately…not much exciting going on around here. But Will just informed me that I should (and I quote): “Never hold back” anything from my blog. I must obey, so….let me think….OK, here’s what today has looked like so far.
Kids getting ingredients ready for our lunch
Macro shot of the [...]
Best table in town
Posted in Food and Drink on January 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bill asked me to go on a date tonight. That’s code for “Let’s go spend $80 on sushi.” I didn’t really feel like driving 25 minutes to our favorite sushi place, nor spending $80. So I asked the kids to help us out with a date. They made us a lovely spaghetti [...]
