I’ve been scouring the web for gluten-free or easily-modified recipes the last several weeks, and there are some good things out there. As I’ve been acquiring supplies and looking for food to make, I realized rather than trying to make a clean break with the unhealthy eating habits I have, I’ve been trying to replicate [...]
Because I’m never content to simply Be Content, I was looking for other veggie lasagna recipes last night to make for Joe & Danielle. I knew I’d make the old standby, but was curious what I might be missing. There is always, always something better hiding just around the corner, right? Plus, new and exciting [...]
We’re having a couple of friends over for dinner tonight, something we almost never do. Mike Neir and I are largely social hermits; we like the idea of socializing, but often lack the energy to actually carry it off. But tonight, we’re going to start trying to be better at this,
I put a quick menu [...]
The holidays mean two very comforting things to me – Sienipiirakka and Iz. I couldn’t just be A Normal Person and have my favorite holiday traditions be a christmas tree and Burl Ives singing “Silver Bells,” oh no. Too easy. Granted, when I was a little girl, those two things were huge for me, along [...]
Let me tell you my feelings about cake.
Cake is basically a medium for frosting. I am so all about the frosting. Any sort – buttercream, cream cheese, chocolate, vanilla… anything that isn’t full of Crisco. The cake is a mechanism for easily delivering the frosting to my mouth, because, let’s face it, not many people [...]