So I wrote an ode to butter a few days ago. Right. Unfortunately, it played into my cooking attempt last night in a rather big way. If you haven’t already heard, I’m becoming slightly obsessed with the Pioneer Woman. Her recipes are just the right mix of unique and down home, her photography is beautiful,…
Category: Cooking
Butter
The library smelled like fresh bread and melting butter last night. It was kind of wonderful and kind of terrible because you knew you that none of the baked goods were going to make it from your imagination to your stomach. Sigh. The smell did turn my thoughts to the glories of butter, which is…
Taking Dinner Up a Notch
Okay, I think about cooking a lot more than I should. I don’t actually cook that much, but I love food. Also, I get some weirdly similar joy out of cookbooks and romance novel blurbs (just the blurbs). People say things that sound so utterly absurd to me. Reading a few sentences from either type…
Critical Thinking in the Kitchen
I learned an important lesson yesterday. Not every cooking disaster in my kitchen is a direct result of my lack of cooking ability. (Yay!) Yesterday’s disaster snuck up on me from another direction entirely. I put the right ingredients in at the right time, even in the right amounts. I had a good time,…
Keeper of all things Christmas
I’m a pretty big fan of my family. We all like a good laugh and a good book, even if our taste in humor and books is really different from one person to the next. Bad puns also run in the family (thanks, Dad), so fair warning that those might accidentally sneak into posts. The…
Small, but valuable. 