I disappeared without even wishing you all a happy holiday season. Yikes! I got home from my Christmas celebration with my family, determined to start packing things up, and discovered the phone company had mistakenly shut off our phone and internet 1 week early. The phone got fixed but the internet could not be apparently….
Archives for December 2008
Baked Pasta With Chicken Sausage
Well from here on out I will probably have house pictures for you, mostly because we are out there a lot, and each time something new has been finished in the kitchen. Like the microwave…. And we moved the fridge (it’s a long story–the kitchen designer screwed up and it has been a pain). The kitchen…
Dreaming Of Mandelbrot & Making Brownie Biscotti
Before I forget (which I say because I already did once and am now revising this post), I have updated pictures for you. What a mud pit! I am rather terrified when I think of living without a lawn until spring with 3 large (and 1 of them geriatric) dogs. Thanks goodness we…
Braised Beef with Butternut Squash, Sweet Potatoes and Dried Cherries & A Kitchen In Progress
I bet you guys wondered what on earth happened to the house pics. What happened was I got a new camera phone–and became so enamored with it I stopped taking my camera out to the property. In the meantime it took me forever to figure out how to upload the pictures taken with the phone….
Espresso Chocolate Chip Mandelbrot For The Troops
Will you forgive me for sharing a recipe without pictures? A Christmas cookie recipe, no less? See, on Wednesday my mom got here and we frantically started packing the house. She left on Thursday, and I spent Thursday and Friday baking what felt like a billion cookies, for a cookie swap and for a soldier…
Prozac For Dogs & Decorated Sugar Cookies For The Holidays
Many of you probably remember the travails we have experienced with our middle dog, Finnegan. The one who stole my naan. The one who gets in the garbage. The one who ate half a bundt cake in 15 seconds flat. Yeah that one. Well we put him on Prozac and my sugar cookies have been…
The Theme Of The Moment: Stress & Peppermint
It suddenly feels like finding a spare moment to do anything, much less post to this blog, is not to be had. Certainly not take pictures in daylight, as these photos can attest. In light of that, this will be short, but sweet. Very sweet, rich, chocolatey and full of minty goodness. Smooth and slightly…
Mini Chip Peppermint Crisps, OH MY
These are my first huge discovery of the Christmas cookie baking season. Every year I make an effort to try some new recipes, create some new traditions. Some of the really successful cookies of past Christmases (that are not family recipes) include Gale Gand’s Hungarian Shortbread, Carole Walter’s Scottish Shortbread, and a recipe found on…
Chickpea Pumpkin Curry
I visit lots of blogs that feature drool worthy food (see sidebar for examples). But very rarely am I instantly inspired to make whatever it is I am reading. The one exception to this is Vicci’s The Days Are Just Packed. She has a knack for picking vegetarian or otherwise very healthy dishes that are…