Yes, we are a little nuts.

No, I don't know how we're going to cut it.

Yes, it was more fun than a barrel of monkeys to make--but it took FOREVER...

( It's behind here... )

I made marshmallow fondant this morning, for Paul's birthday cake ( Read more... )

There are some flavors that cannot help but transport me into summer ( Read more... )

This morning, while I was watching the news, I saw a commercial for fish sticks ( Read more... )

More lunacy from Junkfood Science here.

Is it me, or is this insanity?

Although, if kids aren't allowed to bring anything but stuffed celery to school (NO PEANUT BUTTER!!! IT'S POISON!!!!), it's gonna be a whole lot harder to be the kid that everyone wants to be friends with because he always brings the Twinkies ( Read more... )

I didn't tell my parents what they were having for Christmas dinner. I just asked them if they had plenty of napkins and a bottle of ketchup ( Read more... )

I just got finished baking the lemon meringue pie for tomorrow. It looks yum, if I do say so myself, and it was easy peasy, and even the meringue came out perfectly--washed the bowl and the whisk with white vinegar, remembered the cream of tartar this time, added the sugar slowly. It's all foofy and pretty on top, with those little points of ( Read more... )

Finally got myself together enough to crank the clootie creation this morning, so it's now down there steaming away, as it will be until about 2 ( Read more... )

14F, up from 10F. Wind chill--1F, out of the below-zero zone ( Read more... )

One of my absolute favorite episodes of The Barefoot Contessa is when Ina is informed that she has to create a dinner party for a surprise guest. She behaves like her normal expert and unflappable self, and creates a most delicious and elegant dinner party, only to open her front door and find Mel Brooks standing on her doorstep ( Read more... )