I couldn’t for the life of me finish a post I was working on yesterday (not the one that actually got posted). What brought me out of the funk? Cookbooks, of course. The new books cart rolled on by, and I snagged not one, but two cookbooks to keep me busy for the next few…
Category: Cooking
Passing Notes
This week provided solid proof that some things do get better as you get older. I’ve been sharing notes with friends since way back when. In high school, they were mostly about how great it would be when Integrated Physics and Chemistry was finished for the day and we could just play tennis. Or they…
Slight Case of the Heebie Jeebies
It makes me kind of nervous when library patrons complain about not having enough privacy at our computers. What are you looking at online that requires more than a library carrel for privacy? Hmm. There was a story in grad school about a man who regularly used Vaseline to stick newspaper to the windows of…
Presto, tomato!
Until a few minutes ago, I was wondering what to do tonight. Saturday and Sunday are mostly mapped out, but tonight was still a void of nothingness. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy unplanned time, I just had to think through what to do with the luxury of having no pressing projects or cleaning needs…
Years of Careful Shopping
I could currently recreate the scene in Bridget Jones’ Diary where she’s scraping mold off a block of cheese and the camera pans back to an empty fridge. In my case, I would also be able to drink some old chicken broth with the moldy cheese. I lead a very gourmet daily existence. Instead of…
Muffins and cupcakes and sweets, oh my!
Few things make me smile like a good dose of sugar. I almost agree with a famous overgrown elf who thinks that the main food groups are candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup. If the food groups were my choice though, it would be muffins, doughnuts, ice cream, and veggies. You have to throw…
All Real Ingredients
Stouffer’s enlightened me about their lasagna last night between segments of something or other on TV. I honestly don’t remember what I was watching. Hmm. The thing that surprised me was when they claimed that their lasagna is made with “all real ingredients.” NO! Really? Wait a minute. Aren’t all ingredients real? Fake cheese is…
Small, but valuable. 