I realized after a moment of terror earlier today that there are ten days left before Thanksgiving, and beyond my usual smoked-paprika turkey, I have no idea what to makeAs usual, it’s a small table: four adults and Andrew.  I decided last year that I wasn’t going to make a full on T-Day dinner if it’s just a few people, so I started asking what ( Read more... )

*ahem*

Starters:
Strawberry Soup
Salmon Pate in Cucumber Boats

Main Courses and Sides:
Wine-Braised Pot Roast
Herb-Roasted Turkey Breast
Mashed Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes with Red Onion
Garlic-Roasted Carrots
Gujarati-Style Green Beans
**Some other fresh green veggie, whatever's on sale and/or looks yummy when I do the shopping

Dessert:
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I broke down and bought a hand-held mixer this morning. Granted, I bought it at Goodwill for $3.50, and it's probably as old as I am - it's that lovely avocado green color that was popular in the 1970s. This, however, is not a deterrent, because my mom had a fridge that color until I was in college. The damn thing went twenty years before it ( Read more... )

The bonus of having your father-in-law stay with you is that it's essentially free babysitting. From the minute he arrived last night, Andrew has been tagging along after Grandpa, except for this morning when he was in school, and for about an hour after coming home because Grandpa had hidden in the garage. (To be fair, he was at Home Depot first ( Read more... )

Just in case anyone was wondering, I want to find the guy who invented Spring Break and have him shot.

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Do you know what every good restaurant needs on its menu? Soup. Soup is good.


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I was a co-host to the writer's group meeting last week. So far, every group has involved food. Because we're writers. And we eat. I don't know, it seems to be a thing ( Read more... )

I've been a bit bad about posting updates to the recipes, so I'm going to try to catch up in the next couple of days.

First up, though, let me give you the second round of Spinach.


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1. Andrew v CleoCleo snuck into Andrew's room just before I put him to bed tonight. Normally Cleo does not hang in Andrew's room at night, because we keep his door closed so that we can watch TV and not worry about noise. Also, because Andrew doesn't need the distraction of OMG CLEO IS ON MY BED when we're really rather he go to sleep ( Read more... )

1. Cooking. I continue to be a lean, mean, recipe-testing machine. I remade the spinach on Friday night and it turned out MUCH better, though could still use some tweaking. Picture/recipe to follow. I also made Anzac Biscuits with the golden syrup, and they are quite yummy and being passed around. Currently there is a chicken in the oven, ( Read more... )

I appear to be a lean, mean, recipe-testing machine this week. (I think if I were ever to start a food-centric blog, that's what my tag line would be. "Testing the Stars' Recipes So You Don't Have To ( Read more... )