January 2010
24 posts
conscientious objector
i cannot stand fondue.
there. i said it. i feel much better. although, i’d feel much, much better if you were to allow me to go on for a bit about the intricacies of my fondue dislike.
thank you!
first of all, if i’m going to eat bread that’s been cut into cubes then dipped in cheese, i’d rather just have a grilled cheese sandwich (done right with dave’s killer...
sometimes i hate knowing too much
having a kid has caused me to obsess over nearly everything. first there was pregnancy in general - i was certain every decision i made while pregnant was going to have some adverse affect on my unborn child. i mean, some people tell you to avoid even peanut butter when pregnant…how was i supposed to see this child safely out of the birth canal if a little thing like me eating peanut butter...
pancakes. enough said.
yesterday i posted about freezing pancakes. really, it was just a couple of photos and then my near-endless blathering about pancakes. i apologize. that was kind of an empty post, huh?
anyways, let’s get down to business:
right now i’m going to tell you how to make your own buttermilk, kind of. then i’m going to give you a recipe for buttermilk pancakes. then i’m going to...
frozen soup, i heart you.
phew. it’s been a looong couple of weeks at work. and at home. at work, we started shipping our baked goods across the country. at home, my kid has decided to take over an hour to get in the mood to go to bed. consequently, for the last 3 weeks, my evenings have looked something like this:
leave work in a hurry, leaving a giant list of things undone get home dump bag in entry rush to...
going to a gift show is like taking a ride in a...
oh, seattle. you’re so close, but you feel so. far. away.
this past weekend i found myself in seattle with three lovely ladies. the trip was for work, but it felt like we were instead skipping school. what, with all the finger pointing and giggling we did, you’d have thought we were still in high school, actually.
anyways, it was market week in seattle - which means the pacific...
men & sausage
i don’t know what it is, but both of the men in my life love sausage. aside from bbq flavored pop chips (which are currently strictly forbidden in our house,) sausage is the food both my thirty-something year old husband and two year old son can agree on. that’s weird. for a while i was buying quality frozen sausages that the husband could ‘cook’ at breakfast and add to...
lack of snack foods update
it’s been 22 days since i had my last chip. and i have to say, it hasn’t been that hard. as you may recall, at the beginning of the year i made the decision to say ‘no!’ to foods that come in wrappers. at first i thought i’d never be able to do it. and i thought the kid would never be able to do it. and worse, i KNEW the husband would never be able to do it. but,...
what's for dinner?
i’ve got a surprising amount of friends in my life who don’t do menu planning. you know, sitting down once a week and charting out the coming day’s food adventures? flipping through magazines and cookbooks and the web to find a recipe that might be good for, say, wednesday night? really? you don’t do that? oh, come on! you’re making me feel ancient here! who am i,...
i've created a (noodle) monster.
i’m not big into kitchen gadgets.
yes, i have an ice cream maker, a waffle iron, a bagel slicer, two slow cookers and enough specialty baking pans to start my own catering business - but really, honestly, i’m not too gadgety when it comes to kitchen stuff.
but then i got a pasta roller. and not the kind that turns with a crank - the kind that attaches to my mixer and goes all. by....
oh, dear. i'm sorry about this one...
owning a business is crazy-business. there are so many aspects of it that are truly awesome…and there are so many aspects of it that are truly crummy. but when you decide to take the leap, you’re basically making a pact that you’ll take the good and the bad (and the really bad) and deal with it. right? right. which is why i feel funny when i start to complain about my life as the...
cracker news
a few posts ago i told you all about my attempts at home cracker baking. well, i know you probably wake up every single day and wonder if i tried to improve upon my last cracker making experience - and guess what? i have! in fact, i just finished washing up the dishes! my last cracker experience was definitely a learning one. first off, i burned a few sheet trays of crackers because i put them...
ooh, i may have overdone it.
2010 has started and i made a vow to clean out our pantry.
those goldfish crackers the kid loves? gone. all the popchips and triscuits the husband loves? gone. all the salty-sweet kettlecorn that i love? gone.
and what do we have left? not much if i haven’t made it myself.
things started out great. as you can tell from an earlier post, i made my own crackers! the cracker-making day was...
i've finally figured it out.
okay. well, i haven’t figured everything out. not even close. and ‘it’ - i’m not exactly sure what the ‘it’ that i speak of above really is - but i do know that i should start telling you more. of course, no one is reading this. but maybe when i start telling you more, you’ll start reading this more. hmm. and ahh. okay, it’s decided. i’ll start...
