Month: June 2008

This was such a fun idea!  Last week I decided that I wanted to make pizza for our Sunday Company Dinner.  Since it’s summer, our group dwindles sometimes, so with pizza I thought I could be prepared for just a few people, or a lot of people.  But how best […]

I still have cookies on the brain.  After nibbling on those chocolate chip cookies all week, I really had a desire to see how that dough fared with white chocolate and macadamia nuts.  So while out doing the weekly shopping I picked up the nuts and white chocolate chips.  I […]

Last week, my husband actually challenged me to come up with a veggie or bean burger that I think he’ll enjoy.  I keep playing with vegetarian food while he’s out of town working,  but he’s really intrigued by the idea of an “alternative” burger.  So my goal is to find […]

I’ve been meaning to share a few things here on my blog, but then things have come up or a new recipe caught my eye and got some attention.  I keep a running list of blog-topics and recipes to share, mostly so that I don’t repeat myself, but also to […]

It’s been far too long since I’ve made homemade cookies.  I was feeling like a bad mom, and feeling like a bad wife, sending my husband off to work without homemade goodies to grace his lunchbox.  The fact is though, if there are cookies around- guess who eats them?  That’s […]

I guess I really like chard! Before sampling this rainbow chard from my garden, I had only ever had spinach, as far as a green goes- and as far as I know, I guess.   They always intimidated me.  For one thing, with greens, you usually need a substantial amount to […]

“It looked really good and tasted great! Tell your blog readers that.” …but I didn’t get a picture of the finished product. For Sunday Company Dinner this week, I had decided that I wanted to do something easy and sandwich like.  I’d been fighting off the ants all week, and […]

One of my intentions with this year’s garden was to explore greens that I was unfamiliar with.  I tend to shy away from greens other than spinach in general, which is a shame, since I would probably love most of them.  The first green to emerge victorious also happens to […]

but, oh, was it good!  We did end up heading out the the berry patch yesterday morning.  I wanted to pick some simply for eating and sharing.  Usually we pick berries and make jam, but with my kitchen under seige by the ants, making jam wasn’t even in the realm […]

Several nights this week I had a similar dream.  In the dream, I was grocery shopping, or about to go grocery shopping, and I had this sense of urgency to stock up the pantry.  I was almost frantic in my dream- worried that I wouldn’t have enough in my pantry.  […]

Other than one bit of rogue code that I can’t seem to get rid of, I think I am happy with this one.  It took a wee bit of editing, and I think it looks okay in both Firefox and IE.  Please, if anything seems wonky or isn’t working right, […]

I thought I’d share some photos this morning of Abigail in her dance costumes.  We had a wonderful weekend enjoying her recitals, although it did keep us a little busy.  There hasn’t been really any cooking since we’ve been running around, but this coming week I may have a few […]