i have no idea what the name is for this pasta shape. but it is charmingly evocative of a bandaid, and i now wish i could find more.


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so i really like glommy food. gluey things and comforting things, and soft starches ( Read more... )

making culinary strides on behalf of six year-olds everywhere.

today for breakfast i made peanut butter cream of wheat.

yeah, recipe: make cream of wheat, put it in a bowl, stir in a couple of generous spoonsful of natural peanut butter, pour in a random amount of honey, stir, eat. ASK MOM FOR HELP WITH THE STOVE ITS HOT.

no matter what they might tell you, buttery toast with hot cocoa mix on top is not an adequate substitute for chocolate cake.

it's sad but true.

i would really like some homemade buttermilk pancakes with real maple syrup for breakfast.

but i think i will actually have cornmeal mush with blackstrap molasses. it's sort of a cognate.

so this morning we had bubble and squeak for breakfast.

kind of.

except that instead of cabbage, matt used cauliflower greens. and the leftover mashed potatoes he used were actually leftover mashed boniatos that i made for dinner last night. and there was no bacon or whatever involved, and it was fried in butter. you know, because butter = ( Read more... )

jam packed schedule lately is leading to very little as far as thoughts about food. except hey! mmmm jam ( Read more... )

you know how sometimes you are hungry and bored, so you make slightly odd food choices? well, apparently i was having a low protein moment saturday morning, because i decided that the very best course of action would be a peanut butter & fried egg sandwich.


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it's that time again, and as luck would have it, i was actually prepared this time! well, prepared probably isn't the right word for it, but that's ok.

it's edition 14 of is my blog burning, and the theme is orange. the color. i like plenty of orange things, and if i had known that the event was today before, well, today, i might have really gone ( Read more... )

the current influenza virus? really bad for writing about food. i mean, thankfully it had no tummy element, but a week later and i'm still all "food? eh." which isn't like me. thankfully i do have a bit of a backlog, but of course being bedridden for a week has also put me a bit behind in both schoolwork and workwork ( Read more... )