January 19, 2013 kitchen Complicated Pastry Day - Part One Thanks for everyone's interest in my Complicated Pastry Days! It was very fun. There's a lot of 'splaining to do so this might b...
January 18, 2013 kitchen The Great Beet Crisis of 2013 This is it. The very last jar of my home canned beets. I'll soon be beetless. Then what? Wandering around aimlessly looking for some kin...
January 11, 2013 cats kitchen Soup and Nicholas Looks like I need another day on the couch. Today I have soup.....and Nicholas. Talk about homemade soup! Step one was go and butcher the ch...
January 10, 2013 cats kitchen Warmer Weather and Sandwiches We are expecting the weirdest weather ever in the next couple of days. Instead of looking like the Ice Planet Hoth... we are going to have s...
January 8, 2013 kitchen The First Duck Egg ... Becomes Pasta Isn't it beautiful? We got the first duck egg of the season yesterday. It's very very small and incredibly beautiful. So of course I...
January 3, 2013 kitchen The Best Gift. EVER. It is THE greatest Christmas gift I have ever received, or will ever receive.... and it's not even a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in ...
December 29, 2012 kitchen Candy Cane Biscotti Did you get suckered into the 10 for $10 boxes of candy cane sale at the store? Yeah me too. OK so what are you gonna do with all those cand...
December 28, 2012 kitchen Savory Bread Pudding My most hilarious friend calls our Winter Weather Advisories "FTE's." You know, everyone runs out to the store to buy milk, e...