Today’s first experiment is a Rice Cooker Mac and Cheese with boka crumbles. For the most part is was easy enough, except when I got distracted and burned the bottom of the boka. *sighs* Bad ADD mommy. I added it anyways hoping the cheese would cover up the minor amounts of over brown bits. I think using some of the broth in brown will help as well ( Read more... )

Yesterday I finally got around to give the kitchen a though post semester cleaning now that we’ve had a couple cooler days, so spent some time experimenting with some new food choices for our mixed family’s needs (mixed as in meat eaters, a vegetarian, and a mom with IBS thrown in just to complicate things further). I had forgotten how much fun ( Read more... )

I’ve been thinking a lot about eating better, trouble is my mother was a single mom so most of our meal growing up came from a box, and my grandmother who cooked from scratch was not a patience teacher. So, my challenge is to learn basic cooking stuff later in life without paying tons of cash for lessons. Here are some vids I would say are the top ( Read more... )

My roomate’s heading off to sleep so I’ll make this as quick as I can so as not to keep her up…

We had a great little selection for breakfast (and the snacks were great later too) and the rest of my morning was spent (once she arrived) with my mentoree giving her advice on her writing. That was a great experience to help someone else like that, as ( Read more... )

I arrived in Phoenix...

at about 10:30 am, and after a minor scare trying to find my luggage I was rescued by the GCLS “Dyke Mobile” and whisked off to the con. I met soooo many people that I’d only met online before and I tried very hard to remember their names. Strange thing is as soon as they heard the name Moondancer they grinned and said “Oh, I ( Read more... )