Month: September 2005

Those darn drip pans catch fire!!! 😮Yeah…um, last night while my potato-leek soup simmerd away, I had to get supper going for the kids. Abigail requested Blue’s Clues Mac-N-Cheese. Worked for me. I put the pot of water on the burner and walked away. Zander asked to go downstairs to […]

This last week I picked up some yukon gold potatoes and some leeks to make a new recipe in this months Cooking Light, Golden Potato-Leek Soup with Cheddar Toasts. I wasn’t quite sure when I was actually going to make it- but today at Sam’s I got my hands on […]

Part of being a foodie is being open to trying new foods. So I have decided that another facet to my blog should be product reviewing. I mean, I rave about websites, blogs, and cookbooks. Why not a new product that I think everyone should have! The first product I […]

Mice! This morning, Zander and I went to church to do my weekly cleaning. Now, I know there has been at least one mouse who has taken up residence in our church. I clean every week and am frequently taking care of the tiny droppings. Andy has put out those […]

Yesterday I had another happy moment in the kitchen. I recently picked up The Bread Bible and made my first recipe out of it. It was a simple hearth bread- and a little involved- but the end product was so wonderful. I don’t know why I avoided that book for […]

Anyone who has read Dean Koontz’s Watchers will appreciate the title to today’s post. Probably the best he’s ever written. I have read it so many times, and it still affects me when I read it. 🙂 SO I’m not posting much today- I apologize for that. The fiddle is […]

I am a God in the kitchen. 🙂 Today I successfully mastered the art of chicken stock. Being a thrifty girl at times, I have tried over and over to make homemade chicken soup with homemade chicken stock. Yet I have always found my homemade stock to be SEVERELY lacking. […]

We had company tonight, so I tried something new with some Mediterreanean olives I had sitting in the fridge. They are good olives- just not special, and I have A LOT of them. I took about 2 TBS of red wine vinegar, salt, pepper, dried rosemary, and some lemon zest […]

Today was just a good day. I spent most of the day with Andy and Zander- and Abigail when she wasn’t at school. Andy got today off- so Abigail was super excited to have Daddy here to walk her to and from school. It’s just been a pleasant day. I […]

Yesterday after school I cleaned out Abigail’s lunch box (as has become daily habit). I was dismayed to find out she hardly ate anything at lunch- a few bites of sandwich, two cookies, and some Cheetos. Her apple remained untouched, her juice box untouched, and most of a sandwich, in […]

I think we don’t eat enough eggs. I can’t tell you how many time I open the fridge and think, there’s nothing here to eat. Yet there is always a carton of eggs. So today I made myself a little fritatta for lunch, and I have to tell you, it […]

Today has been a nice day. After the hectic last few days, Andy and I mostly relaxed and didn’t do much. We went to church, watched a bit of football, I went to church this afternoon to do my weekly cleaning, and neither of us wanted to work too hard […]