so we made the sourdough cinnamon rolls (that chris mentioned here) and, well, the dough turned out great. the icing was fine and the filling was awesome, except, well... all the filling leaked out while they baked! they were sitting in a big puddle of it, which was burning to the pan, and you could hardly taste it in the finished product. so ( Read more... )

I feel like I never update anymore. anyway, here's some randomness ( Read more... )

last night I made homemade pizza (well, the dough for the crust was storebought, but we had to bake it ourselves.) with pesto instead of tomato sauce. and the only topping, other than lots and lots of cheese, was chopped fresh tomatoes ( Read more... )

something about Lent makes me want to eat old food. no, not moldy... I mean types of foods people would've eaten in the biblical era. my mom used to have a cookbook with recipes in it, using things (or similar substitutes) that would have been available back then.. but she can't find it :P so I'm gonna try to find some stuff online ( Read more... )

Go to your photobucket (or whatever online host you use), click on the third to last page in your album, select the third picture on the page. Post and explain.


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Dietrich (22 months old, if you remember) comes running into the kitchen with a wooden wrench and a wooden screwdriver. and says:

"I got TOOLS mommy. I wanna make a CAKE."

a cup of water and a teaspoon of flour and two eggs. then mix it all up and put it in the oven and bake it.

not that I know what he looks like, but we were in downtown Chicago on monday, and a bunch of police cars and black SUVs went by, and everyone said Joe Biden was rather conspicuously in one of the windows. hm ( Read more... )

actually, St. Nicholas' Day was saturday, but I haven't been online since then, so ( Read more... )

I just dug through old archives in autumn_addicts to find this recipe. it's so good, but I don't know when we'll make it, since we won't have time for tomorrow.