Yesterday I had to come home from work a little early, to meet the furnace guy. I decided to indulge in a little nostalgia, and use up some of the excess mini-marshmallows and rice krispies leftover from prom night to make chocolate-topped, peanut butter flavored, rice krispie treats. I used to make them a lot […]
This is an experiment with the Portfolio Slideshow plugin, using rhubarb muffins photographed almost exactly 2 years ago. And speaking of rhubarb … This was a pretty good batch of muffins – I felt I had perfected my rhubarb muffin recipe. I have good luck with rhubarb & cake, and rhubarb and crumble – like […]
I’ve been biking to work and going past a lot of bloomy stuff. This tree is by the veterinary school, by one of my favorite bike path sections, where you go past a couple of greenhouses, then there’s this field that’s behind the large animal veterinary building. There are usually a lot of architectural scraps […]
On Saturday, I put on a cupcake decorating 8-year old’s birthday party, with eight little girls. And me and one nanny and the birthday girl’s mom & dad. It was a lot of fun. I made a double batch of yellow cupcakes – it was the batter that ate New York – it should have […]
One of my Urban Daddy emails (I think I signed up for the service to get entered into some kind of contest … so I get emails about happenings in NYC and Chicago) recommended this iPhone app, SwankoLab. I decided to give it a try. I haven’t done much of anything in a darkroom, myself, […]
Nice post from Dorrie Greenspan the other day about saving the ends of mustard jars to go into vinaigrette. I do that too, rinse out the mustard jar with the vinegar to go into the dressing. Ends of mustards also go into baked beans and the dressing for my brother’s roasted potato salad, which it’s […]
So I wasn’t getting any reserves for the brunch the morning after prom, and then finally at the last second, I got one group of 8, and another of 4 adults & two kids – so a good, right-size crowd. Not so big that I had to panic getting everything ready in the slight disarray […]
On Friday, School Woods hosted a prom, created by Ginger Lukas, a.k.a. prom girl. I made some snacks for the event, chocolate dipped strawberries again, rice krispie treats, punch, veggies & dip, punch with an ice ring with hunks of fruit in it. And I went to Costco for a mega-bag of candy, 5.75 lb. […]
I get tweets from Heidi Swanson when she posts a new recipe at 101 Cookbooks. I got this one Tuesday evening while I was at the Willy Street Co-op for a Board of Director’s meeting, so I could easily pick up a box of tofu – and I had some cold cooked asparagus, and a […]