Squeezing in under the wire today...today I was thankful for the personal and national prosperity that allows me to go to the grocery store, buy whatever I need, and come home and cook a dinner for my family. Also thankful that I took the time to learn to cook a few years ago! When Aaron first met me, I was such a bachelor, all I ate were boxed ( Read more... )

For a significant portion of my friends list, it's a new year. L'shanah tovah! If you're a geek, it's also a new year, as DragonCon has wound to a close and planning has begun for 2010. (Yes, already. That's part of being a geek.) And of course, the academic year starts in September (or it used to when I was a kid). So in more ways than one, ( Read more... )

Last week I discovered Klondike Petite purple potatoes. They're so cute! Wee, itty bitty potatoes! And purple! How could I resist? (I thought they'd be white on the inside, but it's not just the skins--they're purple all the way through.)

( Purple Potatoes and Snap Peas )

I make a point of not ordering potato pancakes at a restaurant, unless of course there's a Jewish grandma in the kitchen. I ask, too. The answer, sadly, is usually no ( Read more... )

Or, how I came to make Dwarf Bread Pudding with Crème Pas Vraiment Anglaise ( Read more... )

After much experimentation and cobbling together of recipes, I give you:

( Sholezard - Persian Rice Pudding )

The call came out on the mailing list a few weeks ago: do you like to bake bread?

Who could resist volunteering to bake for the Thanksgiving service? Certainly not Ubermom. She perked her ears up and said, "I have a bread machine!" And thus it came to pass that I baked two loaves of honey wheat bread for today's service.

( Honey Wheat Thanksgiving Bread )

Mom and I hit a Persian restaurant for lunch today. I am normally not a big fan of Middle Eastern food, but this place had a lunch buffet that was reasonable and had a lot of little nibblies on it that I could parlay into a meal. In the course of the afternoon we discovered several new things:

1. Z does not like hummus. Not the second bite, either ( Read more... )

I've been a cookin' fiend this week. We had company for dinner twice this weekend, plus went to a birthday party, so I've had lots of opportunities.

( Creamy Sweet Potato Soup )

( Sauteed Tilapia with Almonds and Cherries )