Fate needed a laugh
Posted on August 14, 2007 - Filed Under rants | 3 Comments
Sometimes fate just likes to have a laugh at your expense. I mean, it must have been fate that I recalled The Terrible Chocolate Yogurt Incident this morning during the course of thinking on my way to work. And then I repeated the Incident with applesauce this afternoon down to the details. Surely I am [...]
Read More..>>Recipe: Roasted Tomatoes, Garlic and Basil
Posted on August 14, 2007 - Filed Under sauce, vegetables | 2 Comments
Simplicity is sometimes the best thing you can offer food. Truffling this and foaming that doesn’t guarantee a better meal (and can sometimes result in a seriously missed opportunity). But a few simple ingredients, along with a simple process and yield a simply delicious result.
Take this dish for instance. It started out in my head. [...]
Recipe: Roasted Tomatoes, Garlic and Basil
Posted on August 13, 2007 - Filed Under sauce, vegetables | 2 Comments
Simplicity is sometimes the best thing you can offer food. Truffling this and foaming that doesn’t guarantee a better meal (and can sometimes result in a seriously missed opportunity). But a few simple ingredients, along with a simple process and yield a simply delicious result.
Take this dish for instance. It started out in my head. [...]
How to Freeze Blueberries
Posted on August 13, 2007 - Filed Under fruit, preserving/canning | Leave a Comment
Once you’ve picked hoards of the beautiful blue, sweet balls of wonder, what do you do with them? Besides cooking and eating, you can also freeze blueberries so that they can be enjoyed all year.
Frozen berries can be used the same as fresh berries once thawed. And it’s a super treat to have fantastic quality [...]
How to Freeze Blueberries
Posted on August 13, 2007 - Filed Under fruit, preserving/canning | Leave a Comment
Once you’ve picked hoards of the beautiful blue, sweet balls of wonder, what do you do with them? Besides cooking and eating, you can also freeze blueberries so that they can be enjoyed all year.
Frozen berries can be used the same as fresh berries once thawed. And it’s a super treat to have fantastic quality [...]
Recipe: Blueberry Streusel Muffins
Posted on August 12, 2007 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 4 Comments
Blueberries. Mmm. Fresh picked blueberries. Double mmm.
After picking blueberries yesterday, I knew I had to do something with them immediately for breakfast. So early this morning, I whipped up a batch of blueberry streusel muffins. I’ve made these tasty muffins before, but this time I amped up the flavor with a bit more blueberries and [...]
It’s Blueberry Picking Time!
Posted on August 12, 2007 - Filed Under Mama's baby, fruit, pick your own | 1 Comment
The heat wave in New England has subsided. After day after day of intolerable heat, it was cool yesterday (while it rained) and warm today. Thank goodness. The stifling heat is just too much for this pregnant woman to take.
Fortunately, today also happened to be the day that Virtual Frolic and I had planned to [...]
FINALLY! A Real, Live, Working Fridge!
Posted on August 10, 2007 - Filed Under Blog news, The Book, rants | Leave a Comment
Here’s a quick recap, if you haven’t been keeping up on my refrigerator issues: my not-quite three-year-old fridge went on the fritz over the week of July 4th when I was away. First it stopped freezing and then it stopped refrigerating. We lost more food than I realized, including batch after batch of my homemade [...]
Read More..>>Pasta in 10 Minutes
Posted on August 8, 2007 - Filed Under pasta | 2 Comments
I know that it’s summertime and I should be cooking only with the freshest ingredients all the time. But the whole refrigerator debacle left me with a need for more sustainable cooking that used shelf-stable ingredients. Since I couldn’t keep much food in the house, whatever I made had to be a) from ingredients on [...]
Read More..>>Pulling it all together
Posted on August 8, 2007 - Filed Under Blog news | 2 Comments
Unfortunately, the transformation isn’t complete yet, but you can certainly get the idea . . .
Before:
After:The backsplash will be installed later this week. And in the meantime, we still have to hook up the faucet and drain (which needs to be moved, eeek!). I love the way this granite pulls the room together (not sure [...]
