every bite tells a story, every dish is delish
Posted in recipes on Jan 6th, 2009
Here’s the thing: I don’t love Jell-O, and most of America does. I’d bet that even foodie elite, people who’d never be caught with a two-tone wiggler, dig strawberry banana when no one’s looking - I believe it. There are a few distinct groups of Jell-O lovers - 50’s kids who grew up with it, [...]
Posted in Tell Simmer, Tweenager on Dec 1st, 2008
What? You’ve already heard enough Josie this and Josie that, and how Josie loves jellybeans, and went to junior high, and went to Paris, blah blah blah? Well, Miss Twilight seems to think you haven’t heard enough - she’s fed up with “all those pictures of Cleo,” and demanded her own Tell Simmer, which [...]
Josie put in a rabid special request. In honor of the teen vampire movie “Twilight,” which she hasn’t seen yet and will surely expire if she doesn’t, she requested that I re-run her favorite post, in which we discuss Stephenie Meyer’s books and I make a few meatballs. I am still a little hazy [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, recipes on Oct 12th, 2008
Is it the end of a trying week or the start of a good one?
Josie once believed that weeks had two Sundays - one ended the old and the other began the new. Maybe we do need an extra day - and maybe all citizens should be issued a wooden spoon, and that day [...]
Posted in Let's Bake, My So-Called Life, recipes on Aug 21st, 2008
Once upon a time my daughter was not a big-shot junior high kid in the know. She was just a toddling moppet - keen on alphabet games, wild for all things A to Z, and this was handy in grocery lines and waiting rooms and 600-mile drives. We played color alphabet (azure), [...]
