Take a look at my favorite Christmas present! I’d wanted one for a long time. Something magic takes place inside it. I used it for the onion soup but you don’t really need one of these for soup. Last week, with the help of this French Oven I took this:and this: and made this: I […]
Default Pasta w/Artichokes (and chicken)
Greg at SippitySup wrote a blog entry recently on what he calls “Default Pasta Night”. The rest of us call it “find some stuff in the refridgerator and make a pasta with whatever you have on hand” night. Only Greg puts a lot more thought into than I do. So much thought, in fact, that […]
January 26, 2010 by 3 Comments
French Onion Soup Day!
Happiness is a day that starts with this! And ends with this! I have to admit that I have had a few turns in the kitchen since starting my diet. There is, after all, another person in my household who must eat and as long as there is someone hungry in our home, I will […]
January 24, 2010 by 1 Comment
Why I Can’t Have Nice Things.
I break them. That’s why. Well, I don’t always break them. Sometimes its my husband or, unfortunately one of my dinner guests, but mostly its me. Given that I do that I have a tendency to break them you would think I would decide collecting nice ones wouldn’t be a good thing for me to […]
January 17, 2010 by 2 Comments
Saturday Haiku: Prop 8 Redux
Chance to educate. Public should hear arguments. No TV in court? They have lies to tell. Don’t want world to see their hate. Anti-Gay Cowards. (Please feel free to post yours in the comments. Last Saturday’s Prop 8 haiku’s here.)
January 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The Champagne Gods and Mac and Cheese.
All week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve my DH and I were arguing over whether or not we should drink the expensive champagne given to us by some friends a few months back. He was of a mind to give it to someone else in the same manner as we received it but prudence […]
January 10, 2010 by 6 Comments
Saturday Haiku: Repeal DOMA please!
Married legally Just want rights and protection Fed says I’m single? Please support the repeal of DOMA and the overthrow of the heartless Prop 8.
January 9, 2010 by 2 Comments
Barefoot for the New Year
After many years of going out to big parties for New Year’s we decided to have a quiet evening at home by ourselves and enjoy the simple pleasure of waking up to watch the Tournament of Roses Parade instead of turning it on as we get ready for bed. I had to work New Year’s […]
January 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Fig Jammin’ Girls!
I gotta hand it to Caitie and Gillian, my jam buddies. They came up with a lot of creative uses for the fig jam we made as gifts for our gift collective. I have just been telling everyone to ‘use it on cheese’ but I am going to have to rethink this. I arrived at […]
December 20, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Christmas with Southern California Style
Last night we were invited to spend the evening at what is probably the most quintessential Southern California Christmas event: The Newport Harbor Parade of Lights. Its an event that has actually been going on for over 100 years. 100’s of ships and homes along the harbor participate by loading up on festive lights. Caitie […]
December 19, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Drunk Chicken!
Well, you don’t really see this at my house very often! My husband said “what is THAT doing here?” when he came home tonight. I’ve had it in my brain to try out that infamous ‘beer can chicken’ recipe for awhile now and tonight was the night. I picked up a six-er on my way […]
December 18, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Crock Pot White Bean Chili – Cheater!
So Ms. Fig posts her recipe for Pomegranate Jelly and labels it a “cheater version” for using bottled pomegranate juice? I commented that using bottled juice is no more a cheat than using canned chicken stock in soup, something I do most of the time I make it. (Although to do soup it up with […]
December 15, 2009 by 1 Comment
Camera Cleanout: Cranberry Sauce
Time for a camera clean-out. This should have gone up a long time ago but now that I think about it, there is value to holiday cooking postmortems since many Christmas dinners look a lot like Thanksgiving dinners. I saw lots of discussions on turkey, stuffing, various side dishes, and pies this year but not […]
December 15, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Useless Crap
Not pretty, is it? I really liked this article on Mintlife Blog. It offers strategic advice on how to divest your life of clutter. In a nutshell, they recommend moving items you don’t use to an “outbox”. An outbox is some shelf, corner of the garage, or a room where you get things out of […]
December 10, 2009 by Leave a Comment
All the rest is GRAVY!
Can you believe that this is the most coveted kitchen utensil in my mom’s aresenal? Its a birch twig whisk and apparently it is Scandinavian in origin. On Thanksgiving day when I Facebooked about the fact that my brother did not want me to bring anything to dinner I received a lot of congratulatory emails […]
December 9, 2009 by Leave a Comment
