I always say things like ‘this is the last time I’ll mention it’ or ‘I’m totally done complaining now’ but, with regard to the tomatoes, I’m not quite there yet. Almost but not quite.
At the end of it all I have 20 pints and 3 quarts of tomatoes. I only broke 1 jar and only almost blew the house up once. That a success, right? Read the rest of this entry »
So I processed 4 pints of salsa last night. This place smelled like the Old El Paso factory. Of course by morning the smell of the salsa had mingled with some ripe bananas and coffee and it smelled, very strangely, more like Trader Joe’s. Read the rest of this entry »
My house is a mess. It’s totally covered with toys and baby gear. To the gills it is. You can’t take a step in here without stepping on something small and pointy. That’s at least partly because I bought a bag of small pointy toys on Saturday. I took Chase to the thrift store and let her pick some things. It was fun but I’m starting to question whether or not it was a good idea after all. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ll admit, at first I was ambivalent about this recipe. I felt bad because my friend Erin suggested it to me and I didn’t love it. I don’t know what I was thinking. Read the rest of this entry »
I hesitate to tell you the story of these buns because I know how you’ll roll your eyes but I feel that I must. I must because these buns are good and because these buns are easy. Read the rest of this entry »
So, I concluded that the best way to get organic strawberries for making jam is to grow them yourself. I can’t take credit for the growing. Ben gets all the credit. I didn’t even want these strawberries in the yard anymore. Now, I’m on the fence again. Read the rest of this entry »
I somehow managed to get way behind on this but I’ve still been planning and shopping and cooking. Last week was pretty run of the mill. The only new recipe that I tried was for loaded sweet potatoes. YUM! So good. Read the rest of this entry »
I love scones. I wish there were still some leftover from this morning. I’m regretting offering one to Ben this morning and letting Chase have a second one this afternoon. Here’s my dilemma. I have an old and faithful recipe that I always use (Gosh, just scroll down for the recipe. Reading your own writing must be a little like listening to a recording of your own voice). The recipe makes yummy delicious scones just the way I like them… Read the rest of this entry »
I’m totally on a roll here. Well, except for the weekends. Apparently I don’t cook on weekends anymore. I was patting myself on the back for not going out to dinner even once this week. Of course, we went out to lunch not twice, not thrice but FOUR times since Thursday. Sigh. That kind of negates all of my hard work with dinner. At least Thursday and Friday’s lunches weren’t crazy over the top. Read the rest of this entry »
More park pictures! Chase doesn’t get to see her friend from school all that often but when she does she sure does make the most of it. Lots of running, sliding and digging in the sandbox. And when, as it so often happens in Smalltimore, another friend comes running up? Well that’s just the icing on the cake. Read the rest of this entry »