Category: Thoughts
The Blessing of Extraordinary People
Many of you already know this, but my kids are students of Sandy Hook School. On Friday, when the joyful learning environment was shattered by violence, my son was in his classroom. He heard screams over the intercom and gunshots. His teacher, to whom I am forever indebted, hurried the students into their safe corner [...]
A Fresh, New Look for Sarah’s Cucina Bella
So … notice anything different? (Those of you reading via email or feed reader should totally click through today!) The Pink Pear logo has served me well over the years since it was created five years ago. Back then, Paige was an infant and Will was a toddler. I was in that early motherhood stage [...]
Pancake Party! Banana Split Pancakes
A few months back, Rachel from Rachel Cooks! asked me to participate in Pancake Party, a month-long event celebrating (you guessed it!) pancakes. Since pancakes verge on phenomenon status in our house, I said yes and suggested Banana Split Pancakes.
Coffee Brings People Together (And Starbucks Coffee College)
Coffee and I? We’re old buddies. I grew up in a coffee-drinking family, who gathered every weekend day for a leisurely cup. In summer, we’d all sit on the sun porch — even before I started drinking coffee myself — and chat, sometimes inviting neighbors in with a friendly call out the window. Sometimes, [...]
Saying Thank You (With Cranberry Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies)
When someone does something amazing for you — whether it’s helping you shift the furniture in your house, helping you dig out from a massive snowstorm or something more subtle — it’s important to say thank you. And really, it’s a circumstance where words just aren’t enough. Actions mean more. Cookies mean more. I’m a [...]
Searching for the Perfect Homemade Pasta Recipe: Part 1
If there was just one carb to darken my doorway for the rest of eternity, it would be pasta. My kids request it nightly. I like it. My husband likes it. And there are endless ways to flavor and dress it. As far as versatile ingredients go, pasta is right up there. Typically, we eat [...]
Apple Picking 2010: Now, With Less Stress!
Every year, the kids and I (and often our friends) head to local farms for pick-you-own fun. This past weekend, that meant apple picking. The apple picking season generally starts in September and goes through early November here in Connecticut, so we are more than half-way through the season (and late by our standards). Fortunately, [...]
Why I Write about Food and Eating
In MFK Fisher’s book, The Gastronomical Me, she begins her forward with these paragraphs: People ask me: Why do you write about food, and eating and drinking? Why don’t you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way others do? They ask it accusingly, as if I were somehow gross, [...]
The Ice Cream Truck
Do you remember what it’s like to be a child and hear the music of the ice cream truck grow louder and louder as the truck nears and passes your house? I do, because even though I am 30, I still relish in buying a little something from one of the infamous trucks. When the [...]
