As if the Chocolate Malted Whopper Drops weren’t enough, I made/altered a Cooks’ Illustrated recipe for Big and Chewy Oatmeal Cookies. (Really it was sort of as a consolation for my husband. He said they were good, but asked where the malt was. He’s SO spoiled!) But, seriously, they are really good. And they are […]

I appreciate all the bids and comments below. I just had the chance to go through them. On Friday afternoon I called my husband at work and made him come home to take me to the ER. I had been having what I finally figured out were gallbladder attacks for the past two weeks and […]

No pictures for this post, I’m afraid. I couldn’t stop weeping long enough to take any pictures. Seriously. I’m very sad. We live in New York. It gets pretty darn hot and humid here. I’m nine months pregnant. I don’t like the heat anyway, but add pregnancy to it….it’s not working for me. So, I […]

Well….no baby yet. I’m still packing boxes and cleaning out my cupboard. It’s too hot to do much cooking. And I’m too scatterbrained to do much fancy meal planning. Dinner solution? The slow cooker. My mom used to make BBQ Country Ribs all the time when I was a kid. It was one of my […]

I get asked about making homemade ice cream all the time. Really, I don’t feel all too qualified to offer too much advice. My obsession with making my ice cream started when I went to Italy as an 18-year-old and tasted gelato for the first time. It wasn’t until several years later when I was […]

Because I’m so mean, I’m going to make you wait for the recipe until later today or tomorrow. Or whenever I can get my act together long enough to write out all the directions. It’s not that detailed really, just a few more steps than usual. But because I am so nice and I love […]

Happy 4th of July to all my fellow Americans! We will be attending a BBQ today, so I thought we’d celebrate the 4th of July a day early on our own, too. I wanted to do something special for my little family because I’ve been a little preoccupied with other things (like a new baby […]

I’ve gotten a bit lazy over the last few weeks. I’m trying to clean out my fridge, freezer and cupboard so our meals have been less than stunning…and a little strange. Lucky for me, it’s just about time to start harvesting the goods from my porch garden. Today we started with the basil. This is […]

Today I went out to water all my plants and was startled to see that ALL of the parsley was gone. Not dead–completely missing. The other day I saw some small (maybe 1 cm long) caterpillars basking in the sun on some of the parsley leaves. I didn’t particularly care to kill them, it’s nature […]

(the peas growing wildly in and out of their container) Our porch garden has come a long way in three weeks since my last little garden update. And a really long way since we first planted seeds at the beginning of May. (Nasturtiums) This picture was taken yesterday afternoon, and just this morning I noticed […]