I wish I meant “sick” here like a really excited teenager eating Five Guys, but I don’t. I mean sick, sick. No one’s gotten too sick so far (knock, knock), but there’s been a lot of medium sick going on around here. 99 degree fevers. Sore throats that turn into belly aches and then just…
Archives for January 2013
the upside
If you were worried that there wouldn’t be anything to get up and knead and roll and shape in your quiet-morning-everyone-is-sleeping-or-watching-cartoons kitchen, no need. Here you go. We’ve got scones! Way back when the sun shone and we wore T-shirts (Summer, Fall? I can’t remember–all I see now is cold), I did a sauerkraut demonstration…
small things in a great way
Today was one of those days where I never left the kitchen. Sometimes, there are those days where I never leave but I accomplish so much, but today was not one of those. I cleaned up from pancakes. I made bread dough. I made granola. I did my dishes. I put snacks into bowls…
mustard caviar
The other night (just before one child threw up, and about 12 hours before the other started running a fever–yes, yes, it’s been that kind of weekend), a friend of mine was over with her two girls so that we could continue some falafel experimentation we had started several weeks earlier. We were working with…
new year, new granola
Have I told you the story about how when I sent my book proposal for The Homemade Pantry to my agent, I also sent granola? Scour the internet (as we tend to do when looking for direction on big, life-changing things that have no guidebook), and the rules on how to send a book proposal…