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…
Tag: Cooking
Poor Wardrobe Choices
Sometimes you just pick the right thing to wear, and life is good. It’s hot outside and you opted for your loose shorts instead of jeans or something like that. Congratulations! And sometimes you get it wrong. Today unfortunately falls into that second category. I look cute, so that got me halfway to a good…
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…
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. 