Today is my dad's 80th birthday! He says he's feeling good, so we're all thankful for that. We're taking him out to dinner tomorrow (and my brother ordered a rum-soaked cassata for the cake afterwards), but I'm still trying to figure out what to bake for him. I'm thinking chocolate, maybe cupcakes, maybe brownies? but I could be convinced of other ( Read more... )

So for Father's Day on Sunday, I was going to make blueberry crumb cup pies, but then my sister was like, only you and Daddy like blueberry pie (which, what? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND), so it seemed like a bad idea to make a dozen of them if no one else was going to eat them, and anyway, it is frustratingly difficult to roll out pie crust on a cutting ( Read more... )

Allegedly we got nearly a foot of snow. I have not been out, and given the way the wind was whipping it around, I don't know how they can tell. The sun is out now, but I have decided to spend the day inside. I would call it a pajama day, but I did finally get dressed. I might make cinnamon rolls again later. My exciting life ( Read more... )

So my plan for this Christmas is to make ice cream - preferably four pints apiece - for each family, so that means 16 pints altogether (four sets of four pints). I have two 1.5 quart bowls (though I'm not counting on getting three pints out of each recipe), and four days, and I've ordered some of those cooler-tote bags so people can carry their ice ( Read more... )

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ZOMG iPHONE! IT IS HERE AND IT IS GORGEOUS ( Read more... )

I am in a bread-baking mood, but I can't decide which to bake. I've made them both before. Help me, O Flist-wan Kenobi.

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Most of the cookware I've bought over the past year of baking etc. has been either cobalt or caribbean blue. (links go to Amazon)

Crate and Barrel is selling these Mario Batali cast iron roasting pans in polenta yellow or red. I'm not thrilled with the red, but since they don't come in blue, I could maybe be swayed to the yellow. What do you think ( Read more... )

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So this morning as I was getting ready for work, there was another long period of ceiling leakage in my bathroom - right over the toilet, the ceiling is buckled, and right over the shower, the ceiling is cracked. I dug out my spare set of keys and buzzed Mean Super (I really should get a new nickname for him, because he's been much less surly ( Read more... )