http://sarahscucinabella.com Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:56:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Got chips? It was mid-summer when I started dreaming up this cranberry concoction. While my family and I were contemplating whether the elevated temperatures really warranted turning on the air conditioner, I was also starting to fantasize about how I could take some traditional Thanksgiving tastes - like cranberry sauce - ... http://sarahscucinabella.com/2009/11/07/cranberry-salsa/ Until last week, I had never carved a pumpkin myself. There was this one time in high school where I insisted on having a carved pumpkin ... but aside from a tiny knife jab or two, I didn't do the actual carving. But on Halloween, I carved two pumpkins and ... http://sarahscucinabella.com/2009/11/04/roasted-pumpkin-seeds-recipe/ Sometimes, it feels like I blink and a whole month has spun by. That's what October felt like. It was a whirlwind of trips to New Hampshire and the Cape, along with birthdays, work projects and Halloween. I fear that I might blink again soon and have November speed past ... http://sarahscucinabella.com/2009/11/03/holiday-project-idea-drop-in-decorate/ Last year, I was the mom who didn't. I didn't make it to school events on time. I didn't remember when gym day was. I didn't send in trinkets for holidays (a lot of parents do in our school). It was a big round of didn'ts. And it felt like ... http://sarahscucinabella.com/2009/10/31/happy-halloween/ "Mommy, what's this?" Will asked me when he sat down to dinner and saw two spooky ghosts on his plate. I could see him thinking hard as he studied the white apparitions.  "Are they ghosts?" Yes, indeed, they were ghosts. I fashioned these ghosts from mozzerella cheese sliced from a block and ... http://sarahscucinabella.com/2009/10/30/spooky-cheese-ghosts/ So, where did we eat this weekend on the Cape? The Cape. It feels so unnatural to me to say Cape Cod. It's so formal, like something that someone who hadn't ever been there would say. But I've been there many times. As a child, my family would make a yearly pilgrimage ... http://sarahscucinabella.com/2009/10/29/1892/ On Friday, not long after hitting publish on previous blog post here, I loaded the kids into my trusty little Civic and headed to Cape Cod for the weekend. It was dark and rainy, but the drive was pretty easy and peaceful. And when we arrived, just after midnight, we ... http://sarahscucinabella.com/2009/10/27/weekend-in-cape-cod/ When I was in high school, I had a close group of friends who always hung out together. As groups of friends go, we weren't always all the best of friends -- there were ebbs and flows, just like any relationship. But one thing was certain: when we got together, ... http://sarahscucinabella.com/2009/10/23/lemon-blueberry-muffins-recipe/ Some foods are ubiquitous to areas. Philadelphia has its cheesesteaks. The south has its BBQ. New York has its cheesecake. Boston has its baked beans. But for every well-known regional food, there are dozens of lesser known ones that are just as wonderful -- if not more so. When it comes ... http://sarahscucinabella.com/2009/10/22/regional-bites-roast-beef-sandwiches-of-greater-boston/ Last night, after a rushed day, my husband and I did something together that doesn't happen enough these days: we power-cleaned the house. In short order, my office was transformed from neglected storage space to usable thinking space. By the time we were done, the bathrooms were sparkling and the ... http://sarahscucinabella.com/2009/10/21/blue-cheese-and-caramelized-shallot-quiche-recipe/