It’s not all glistening pools of jam and swirly frosting, you know. There are outtakes – trash heaps, a big ugly pile of things you don’t need to see on a food blog, starting with: A naked, salted chicken. This might excite the foodie and the few, but I don’t want to know about it. [...]
In case you were wondering, she is still at it. Cleo is either reaching for butter, or just snagged a piece of pastrami. With that supernatural tongue, who can tell?
Posted in Cleo on Jan 19th, 2009
Yeesh! How life intervenes. I’ll be back tomorrow with something tasty, but for now, please enjoy the quickest, cutest flashback I could find. From April 17, 2008, it’s my favorite kalamata-nosed girl in all her coyote glory. ————- Poor Cleo. When we moved, she thought she was leaving fire trucks and sirens behind. We knew [...]
So cold. It’s a blinding white glimpse of the obvious to say it’s cold, but there it is. Cold never used to trouble me – and in fact I still adore winter, and before that fall, and rank Kansas summer heat just above root canal. But the fact remains that I am freezing. While walking [...]
We spent much of 2007 making house-building plans, and I think it’s fair to say that no room, not by a long shot, received as much design (and re-design) attention as the kitchen. Given that I spend a high percentage of life leaning over a baking board, and as I’m on the wee stumpy side, [...]
