Making tiny molded sugars – no, not moldy sugars, sugars shaped in molds – surely pegs me as a fussy, fussy girl. Anyone who deliberately takes sugar from its god-given home – the pourable shaker – and hand-spoons it into wee tins has got to be a little touched, right? Fussy. But…is it fussy, or [...]
It’s bad enough, the way I peek at their pink bricks and the tall windows. Now I also want to have tea in their garden. I live just a block away but we haven’t met, so I walk past their magnificent house every day with my dog and her pretty red leash – who knows? [...]
Posted in breakfast & brunch, recipes on Feb 17th, 2008
It’s a snow day here. A wet and cold snow day. It was also chilly – but autumn – a few years back when we pulled up to Polly’s Pancake Parlor in Sugar Hill, New Hampshire. But in that rambling old breakfast palace, it was cold – and then warm – in the best possible [...]
Posted in new old house, vacation on Jan 27th, 2008
I like letting a steamy mug of tea steep on the cold marble island. They balance each other out. Today’s Steaming Sunday is brought to you by the Maine Diner in Wells, Maine – home to some of the finest, butteriest, tastiest lobster rolls you will ever eat. They also provided a pressed penny for [...]
