every bite tells a story, every dish is delish
Posted in Let's Get Away on Oct 31st, 2008
I’m in the kitchen today - and also trying to avoid large bowls of Hershey’s miniatures - so please enjoy this flashback on me. I’m wearing scarves in the morning and socks to bed, so I know summer’s really over - but here’s where it started.
From May 28, 2008 - The Last Time I [...]
Posted in Let's Eat on Sep 12th, 2008
It was delightful, poring over all the ways one can both clean out the fridge and scramble eggs. Between the cheeses and the peppers and the sausage and spices, I wanted to grab the Maalox just reading it. I want them all.
And now for the winner. In a rigorously fair ceremony overseen by - um, [...]
Posted in Let's Cook, Let's Eat, recipes on Sep 10th, 2008
Why must I have 25 ways to do everything? Why can’t there just be one way to make cookies, or two ways to make eggs? It’s a curse, it is - a downright motormouth how-to disease. On some things I’m resolute: steak is medium-rare, there’s one way to fold a t-shirt and ice cream should [...]
Posted in Let's Be Crafty on Jul 11th, 2008
In the documentary Grey Gardens, Big Edie and Little Edie - depicted here in egg form - fought eviction from their beautifully decomposing Hamptons house.
But that was nothing compared to the indignities of life in the fridge.
If you haven’t yet checked out the brave women, dogs and babies in Jean’s Grey Gardens contest, it’s a [...]
Posted in Let's Be Crafty on Jul 10th, 2008
When Josie was a toddler, I dutifully subscribed to family-activity-type magazines - and who knows why, because I always started with with “Look! We should go to that family tree-climbing resort in Costa Rica!” and finished by hurling it at the wall.
What ticked me off in those glossies were the food projects. Every kids’ activity [...]
