I am not a pickle person. I never have been. I’m not particularly fond of dill, is my main problem. When I was younger, I would make pickles for 4-H, and people said they were good, but I never tried them. Now that I’m a little older, I can tolerate a pickle if I have to, but I still don’t ... Read More »
I may only have one child, but I know what it’s like to feel like you’re too busy to cook a healthy meal for your family. The past few months I don’t really know what we ate, but we all lived, so I guess we did OK. But husband and I both feel the need to eat a little healthier, ... Read More »
I don’t know how it is where you live (though, frankly, I probably do since most of my readers are local), but this has been a completely strange year weatherwise in Arkansas. We went from warmer than we’d like to a few cold days to finally more like what we expect from fall: cold mornings and warm afternoons, such that ... Read More »
This is Louis. Louis was my baby before I had a baby. He was the cat I picked when we were visiting the litter at my sweetie’s parent’s house (or I guess you could say he picked us, because we’d decided we’d take whichever cat came to greet us, and that was Louis). But he was always my favorite. He ... Read More »
(Yes I know it’s Thursday. I’m taking a day away from home with my sweetie while the tropical storm passes over. This is just what I wanted to share today.) I mentioned in that giant post I’m guessing virtually no one read all the way through yesterday that part of the blogging conference was a Foodie Friday event. We learned ... Read More »
I’m kind of obsessed with the idea of muffin tin meals. The concept is simple: instead of presenting your toddler’s meal on a boring old plate or in a bowl, you put the individual components in muffin tin spaces (or you can use an array of the little individual silicone muffin “tins” instead). It exposes the kid to a variety ... Read More »
I love noodles in just about any way you could think to serve them, but this time of year, hot as it’s been, what I really love is things in the genre of pasta salad. Pasta salads are usually pretty quick and easy to make, you only need to turn on the stove long enough to cook the pasta, you ... Read More »
If Murphy had been a blogger, there would have been a law to the effect that, as soon as you have things to blog about, you will not have time for blogging. And so it is with me right now. My girl was home a few days last week and we had all sorts of fun, but it will take ... Read More »
I mentioned, I think, that I have a really excellent kitchen. It’s big, and has lots of counter space, and will be even better for entertaining when we can get some barstools after the Bit is big enough to not use them to climb onto the counter (does that ever happen?). But there’s this countertop. It’s next to the refrigerator, ... Read More »
Before I was a mom, I was always really resistant to any efforts to feed kids produce and other healthy foods by hiding them in other foods. I figured there was no way kids who learned to eat this way would ever eat vegetables that weren’t hidden, so, even though you were getting the nutrients into your kids, if they ... Read More »
I love tools that make life easier, particularly in the kitchen. Like a food processor. An immersion blender. My KitchenAid. A good bottle of red wine (that last one may just be me). I find, in particular, that I gravitate toward cool tools when it comes to baking, and I got to use two of my favorites recently: the Adjust-a-Cup ... Read More »
Pros will tell you that you can change this and that in a cooking recipe but that, for the most part, you shouldn’t go changing things in baking recipes. Cooking is art; baking is science. A recipe for regular cooking is a guide; a baking recipe is a formula. And I agree with that, but that doesn’t mean you can’t ... Read More »
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