I do too sweetie. I do too. I spent some time last night talking with a woman describing her children’s annual summer treks to a friend’s lake house; over decades: “The kids spent all day building some project, canoeing, fishing, or playing. Then they would all show up at noon to eat; and we had [...]
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Great method of freezing leftover soup into individual servings, without using lots of containers.
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The kid’s are reluctantly shuffling off to bed, I’m mopping the floor, and then, I hear it: That grating vibrato of a wanna-be soprano belting out the lyrics for the judges. That pitch, that amateurish sound, that is the hallmark of the show, is grating on my nerves. I just spent an entire day with [...]
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In the mornings, after the house empties of your big brothers tarrying off to school, the house echoes in stillness, and we ate our big egg, cheese and red onion burrito breakfasts. At the table, you play while you wait on me to dish up the main course, your unfinished bowl of cereal, now already [...]
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Those baseball games, the double-headed tournaments, high-fly catches and the whitewashed uniforms came with a price — entire Saturdays lost. The price my brother paid with his own boys, years before I had children of my own. While he loved those games, I swore them off, unable to comprehend how a child could make anyone [...]
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I love visiting the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, minutes blog to discover what new methods they’ve created for their amazing dough. Breadsticks taste intimidating; they’re so good, they have to be hard to make. After having such good luck with their bread dough, I thought I’d give bread sticks, Grissini, a try. [...]
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That you find on the web. I’ll show you why in a minute. For now, let me just say, I have had a NIGHT. A night that just wouldn’t go away. First, there was the science fair project, that my brother saved. My son’s project, portraying how Edison perfected a light bulb by eliminating oxygen, [...]
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While driving through the roads of my hometown, the ribbons of my heart, I found it impossible to keep a safe emotional distance from the landmarks that appeared through my car window. In a flash, this monument sparked a series of Sundays, the smell of black coffee, Camel cigarettes, sun-wrinkled hands, pick-up trucks, gossip, Grandma’s [...]
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So, Heinz and Campbell Soup raised their food prices, even though fuel and product costs dropped. Time to start a garden. I’m giving away seeds. Growing up during the recession of the 70s, I discovered the security of the food industry; even in hard times. “People always need to eat,” my Mom would say as [...]
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