The Great British Baking Show
I find it extremely addicting. The episodes are short (50-60 minutes), the British accents are charming, and the personalities are wonderful.
Category: Food
Summer menu: without words
I found that the words distracted from the images, and the images from the words. Which post speaks louder? Does it depend on who you are?
Summer menu: without images
Take a chunk of meat and cook it over open flame, drizzle it with the best of barbecue sauces until it’s sizzling and moist and just the tiniest bit burnt…
And yet I am unmoved
The point is that no amount of detached communicating is ever as effective or as fun as being With.
Baking with Joy
When I tasted the chocolate chip cookies that night, I said WHO MADE THESE? They were that good – creamy, flavorful, melt-in-your-mouth…
Our favorite things to do with blueberries
Forty or fifty years ago, someone who lived on our property planted blueberry bushes. Here’s how our family enjoys them.
How to cut a watermelon
I like bite-sized pieces, all ready to go. Here’s a simple method that I’ve had fun creating and playing with, in which the rind itself becomes the cutting board for watermelon cubes.
My life on WIC
But when I really start tensing up is cashing out with multiple checks: an ordeal that takes twenty minutes, at minimum, depending…
The next new flavor
Do you ever wish for an utterly new and unknown food flavor – perhaps an exotic fruit from Tahiti or a mysterious concoction created in a small French kitchen, a subtle, smooth, completely novel taste experience? I do. There’s a name I’m giving it tonight – the flavor is called feliz…
On the whole
This is the sixth homemade dinner that’s been brought to my door since my foster kiddos arrived seven weeks ago; and another is promised for next week. Plus there’ve been special desserts and homemade granola and snack mixes and a huge box of diapers and babysitting and you know, little stuff like that; ladies bring this and say can you use it? I don’t know how to say how blessed I am.