Posted in blogging, Holiday, jewish cooking on Dec 8th, 2010
Happy Holidays to you, my Simmer friends. Peace on earth and good will toward all! All except the malicious spam-creature that is continually sucking good tidings from this blog. Yes. Somewhere, deep within world spam headquarters, an extremely small-hearted bot decided that Simmer would be a good place to nest. Simmer Till Done is under [...]
Posted in Cleo, guest posts on May 4th, 2010
Five year old Cleo is our first quadruped guest blogger. Skills: Sleeping, slobbering, ear-scratching. Being soft. Likes: Josie, tennis balls, pumpkin biscuits, eating grass, pizza crust, chewing fur off behind, butter within reach. Dislikes: Josie going to school, lack of pizza crust, humans talking too much, unfriendly cats, butter out of reach. Loves: Josie She [...]
Posted in Cleo, wordless wednesday on Apr 20th, 2010
Fundraiser Forsythia Faux Farm Focus ———– Fundraiser: Hazelnut Mocha Cherry Torte, made this week for a fundraising auction. Not pictured: extra mocha buttercream, made for sitting around my kitchen. Forsythia: Now popping everywhere in shades of lemon meringue, forsythia rings in the season by dangling over porches and sidewalks, showing its aggressive, smiling best in [...]
Posted in cheese, Chicagoland, Cleo, Josie, winter on Feb 4th, 2010
At least once every winter, inspired by glittery snow that is not yet gray heaps, we break out a red enamel pot, sit in front of the fire and have ourselves a traditional Swiss fondue. We can trace this ritual to our shag-carpeted childhoods, when both our families – maybe every 70′s family – enjoyed [...]
Cleo wasn’t feeling well. Our four-year old black Lab had a problem, in that special dog way of having a problem, the kind that finds you outside at 3 a.m., wondering how she ate a paper towel, a pen, six bagels and their bag. Of course dog owners know that goes with the territory, and [...]
