We got tagged

posted by Mel
tagged by CD & SP and  Sarah
1.) I loathe animatronics, which are everywhere at the holidays. What I hate even more, however, are those giant plastic yard snowglobes.
2.) One of my legs is 1/2″ shorter than the other. When I walk I tend to veer to the right and occasionally bump into my companion. It was never [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

posted by Mel 
We really had a lovely one, despite what you see here…

Yeah, I dropped the pumpkin pie as I was taking it out of the oven– Twice. The first time it would have been cracked on the top but salvageable. The second time I must not have had a good handle on the sides of the pan, [...]

Domesticity (warning: a little disjointed)

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Saturday morning I woke up before Vanessa and Eric, proceeded to the kitchen, washed the dishes that were still sitting in the sink from the day before, opened up a new cookbook (AWESOME- btw) that I have an advance copy of from work and made Chicken Pizziola. We had it for lunch, and [...]

Them’s the Rules

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Now that Eric has been with us for a little more than a week, the honeymoon is drawing to a close– you know, the period where I wanted as much family time as possible because, damn it, the three of us are a family now, and I want to get started making some [...]

The Elusive Biscuit

This photo is kinda fuzzy, but you can just make out the heart shape.

In which I conquer the elusive biscuit

8″ of snow and counting since last night. On days like this I want the smell of something baking in the oven. For the past year I’ve been teaching myself to bake from scratch. Some things I’ve conquered so far:

Angel food cake
All manner of quick breads (pumpkin and banana bread, blueberry muffins, oat bran muffins, corn [...]