Growing up, Wednesdays were Pancake Day. My dad has always been the breakfast cook in my family, and Mondays - Fridays that usually meant cold cereal. But Wednesdays were special. I'm sure my dad looked forward to Sundays the most, b/c Sundays were some form of egg sandwich. I have never really liked eggs, though, especially not when combined w ( Read more... )

Peeps! It's time for an update, complete w/ pictures! And funny enough, it's Dean Winchester's birthday and part of my update is all about pie.


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(That's directed at y'all, just so you know.) Happy New Year and all that jazz! Is it time for a ruminating post? Maybe? I shall create a meme-type-thingy to make things easier.

( What I did this year (cupcakes) )

Alrighty, peeps, I am looking to make some low-carb meals!!! Not no-carb, b/c that's crazy talk, but low-carb. I would especially like vegetarian or fish-y recipes. Hit me w/ your best shot! For your trouble, have a couple dog pics:


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Hodge-podge of crap today, peeps. First, I have been craving the turkey my aunt made for Thanksgiving since ... well, Thanksgiving. So I decided to make it. It did not turn out quite as well as my aunt's. Still okay, but not the awesomeness I was desiring. Second, my kids are adorable. Fawn over them!

( Turkey Time )

Every year I make my world-famous Christmas Bread. It's not really world-famous. But I've made it every year since middle school, so for those keeping track at home, that would be, um, seventeen years, give or take a year. I usually make it for my family (for Christmas Day morning), my grandparents in Maine (for our family reunion) and M's ( Read more... )

This year for Thanksgiving, I'm heading up to my grandma's, and there were no chocolate desserts on the menu. Well, that doesn't fly. So I made my favorite cookies and froze up a huge-ass bag of them to take w/ me to my grandma's house, aka the Land the Internet Forgot. Also, yesterday we went to see the 7th Harry Potter (non-spoilerish squee ( Read more... )

So last week I was all about the squash. Squash is yummy! When I was a kid, I thought squash was grody to the max. My mom only served it one way -- as runny orange baby food. Why would anyone like that? But over the years, I fell head over heels for zucchini (courgettes to y'all across the pond) and summer squash, and then I met butternut ( Read more... )

Dudes!!!! i am sitting here drinking wine and watching Prince of Persia which is a really, really bad movie. we have to wath it b/c M is getting paid to. it sucks, hee. but piper just dragged me outside to go to the bathroon. she had to go, not me. i use a toilet! like this skeleton!!!


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Dudes, I have made the best gluten-free brownies ever!! Back in the day, I used to make gluten-free stuff for a friend of mine who had Celiac's Disease. All the baked goods I made by combining things like rice flour and tapioca flour and such totally flopped. I had to use a mix. I don't like mixes. Fastforward to now, and another coworker has ( Read more... )