I mentioned to yaaresse that I had found a recipe for pumpkin cheesecake bars, and I was looking to try out the recipe this holiday season. She wanted the recipe - so here it is ( Read more... )

But let's get the cat stuff out of the way: Once again I had kitty-inedible chicken for lunch (teriyaki) and poor little Neville let out the saddest meow I've ever heard. A meow to pluck the heartstrings. No chicken for little Neville! He is the most pathetic, hard-done-by kitty in the world ( Read more... )

So the alleged Big Day has come and gone and nothing feels any different except my house smells like cookies. The cats demanded pets and canned food. The dry cleaners had my sweaters ready. (Just think if there HAD been an apocalypse, my poor sweaters would forever have been in limbo. And I'm fond of those sweaters.) It poured down rain, but I don' ( Read more... )

I'm cooking a pork loin in my slow cooker. I seasoned it with Gateway to the North Maple-Garlic seasoning from the Spice House, browned it, put it on top of some cut-up butternut squash (later to be turned into a puree) in the crockpot, deglazed the pan with white wine, poured THAT in, and I hope to have a tasty meal in time for lunch ( Read more... )

This Happy Meal (McDonald's kiddie meal, for non US-ians) sat around FOR A YEAR without decomposing. People eat this sort of thing? Is this like a backdoor way to immortality - my food won't decompose, so neither will I ( Read more... )

Michelle's garden grows just fine, thank you

Mmm, blackberries and raspberries? And all kinds of fresh goodies? Yum. Makes me want a house with a yard so I can put in a garden and fruit trees. My squirrels would love me, I'm sure. :)

Another great site dedicated to regrettable edibles:

Cake Wrecks!Scroll down and check out the groom's cake with the fish pond and LIVE FISH embedded in it. Yum. Chocolate and sushi, two great tastes that really don't taste so great together ( Read more... )

I had some essential ingredients: chicken breasts,chanterelles, garlic, white wine, salt and pepper. Plus my beloved Le Creuset big enameled cast-iron skillet. You can have that skillet when you pry it from my cold, dead hands ( Read more... )

I saw "Julie and Julia" the other day. It's awesome. Go watch it - if nothing else for the amazingly talented Meryl Streep fooling you into thinking she really is Julia Child. And prepare to be hungry afterwards ( Read more... )

Who knew my respectable Swedish great-grandma and her friends exchanged recipes like this when they gathered at Lake Flambeau in Wisconsin? I give you ( Read more... )