(x-posted to Make or Make Do) (wait, scratch that.  Is it not possible to post to momd anymore?)

Vanity cakes are not at all what I expected.

...Ma made vanity cakes.  She made them with beaten eggs and white flour.  She dropped them into a kettle of sizzling fat.  Each one came up bobbing, and floated til it turned itself over, lifting up its honey- ( Read more... )

I went to the Greek Festival for the fourth year in a row this afternoon.  I discovered it by accident when I was walking home from the bus past the convention center one day, and noticed a lot of people with delicious looking food.  I asked them where they got it from, and they told me, with full mouths, "the Greek Festival".  I asked how much it ( Read more... )

Today I am:
baking bread
baking cookies
making a big batch of spaghetti sauce
sewing cloth pads.

Am so domestic.

(and I'm cleaning the kitchen, but THAT'S not exciting, though it is domestic.)

blackberry ice cream!  So good.  I had a lot of extra blackberry puree, so last night for dinner I made waffles with blackberry syrup.  (I just heated it up, threw in some sugar, and since I still had cream left from the ice cream, I put in a good swirl of that.  Delicious!)  There's still some puree left, so I'm going to try making a pitcher of ( Read more... )

Should I go to Slow Food Nation next month?

Probably like a lot of people, I've found that I like the idea of Slow Food more than the actuality.  I'd often heard about it being elitist and whatnot, but I thought "well, I DO buy the expensive olive oil", so I didn't really believe it was that elitist.  (I do forget sometimes, though, that EVERYONE is ( Read more... )

When I opened my CSA box this week, I could not help letting out a geeky little sigh of happiness, because ( Read more... )

Who knew snowcones are sometimes served with ice cream in the middle?  (That's rhetorical; probably several of you knew that ( Read more... )

I had a great time canning applesauce and spaghetti sauce last year, and so I thought I'd like to can more stuff this year.  (I love that "stuff" is actually proper and not colloquial for once, there ( Read more... )

In honor of the 100+ temperatures in Sacramento, I post for you a favorite smoothie recipe.  It is from a book called Smoothies.  I favor pretty simple smoothies made out of whatever I have on hand, normally, and most of the recipes in this book are too complex or expensive or alcoholic for my tastes, but this is a real winner.  Remember my desire ( Read more... )

So much for eloquence; now it's just HOT.  There's always a time of transition around now, when I say something like "It's so hot, I don't think I can stand this" and Nicole says "You'll be standing much worse for the next five months".  When the really hot temperatures come around, they never feel as bad as I anticipated.  (Of course, last summer ( Read more... )