every bite tells a story
Posted in Chicagoland, blogging, cake and cupcakes, chef days, family, pie, tarts, cobblers & crisps, soups on Jan 22nd, 2010
Here’s what they don’t tell you about blogging: it’s random. Crazy random. Unless you have a mission – you wish to share model railroad layouts, or describe one cloud shape per day – blogging is ebb and flow. What to say, what to cook – and why? One answer came from What Would Katharine Hepburn [...]
Posted in Chicagoland, family, vacation on Mar 25th, 2009
We spent our spring break in Chicago, and by that I mean Josie’s spring break; as adults, we seem to have missed the memo, the one that says technically, we no longer deserve a spring break. If you just can’t shake the feeling, I recommend acquiring a school-age child. That’s at least twelve good years [...]
Posted in Chicagoland on Mar 27th, 2008
Still visiting the parents, and it’s snowing. I grew up in these parts, but I’d forgotten that Chicago winter has a serious mean streak. Here, Old Man Winter will dump snow on robin’s nests. And then kick the nest.
On the plus side, the retiree overlord let us leave the condo for lunch. Werker Werker [...]
