That’s right, bacon. Before you get crazy, I’m not putting bacon in my juice.  You may wish to do so, I won’t stop you… but it’s not my thing. No, I just mean that by a weird happenstance of flavor chemistry and tastebud magic, I have figured out how to make my morning OJ taste […]

One of the most annoying first-world problems?  The decompression needed after one returns from a vacation. M and G and I went to San Francisco for a week and a half, and man are our arms tired!  Wait, that isn’t how the joke goes? Picky picky. Seriously, we’re knackered.  Not because we did anything particularly […]

A couple of posts back I wrote about M and I being those kind of parents.  In hindsight, I feel that I may have given the incorrect impression about us – at least about our eating habits.  (Or more accurately my eating habits, I won’t presume to speak for M.) It’s very true that we […]

I am thankful for time off. I was blissfully unplugged from the interwebs (except for the odd foray in when I needed to look up Ricardo Montalban and Corinthian Leather in Wikipedia, of course) over the holiday break.  But now I’m ready to catch up on my Reader and find out what you all have […]

I was reading Literal Mom’s post about dessert and remembered that I’m not the only person in the house who loves dessert. I give you the Pumpkin Bread Dessert Picnic courtesy of G.

Yes. I am thankful for my liver. My liver, and BEER. Last night we and a frouple who lives a few houses down from us finally managed to get our schedules aligned and made it out to dinner together (we’ve been attempting to make this happen for about 6 months now). Luckily, grandparents were available […]

Ok, not really recriminations, I just dig alliteration, and I happen to like that word. “Retractions” perhaps? Yes, that would probably be the better word. Yesterday I accidentally fatfingered a twitter re-tweet. For those of you who don’t know, a “re-tweet” is when you quote another person’s tweet to your own followers, usually adding some […]

In just a few minutes I’ll be grating more pumpkin (a pumpkin grater’s work is never done, sigh) so I’m taking the chance to post now. Pray for me that I don’t end up grating part of my finger off like M did last week — that still hasn’t fully healed, poor guy. We’ve finished […]

As I mentioned in my last post, we purchased and prepared two turkeys for this afternoon’s feast, which was truly moveable. It moved from our house after we cooked it all, to the host’s house where we ate it all. Well, no, where we ate a fraction of it, to be honest. Partially because we […]

Really.  When you’re brining two 18lb turkeys the night before Thanksgiving, that’s a LOT of brine. I can’t complain, I brought this on myself.  Either M and I cooked Thanksgiving dinner, or the person hosting would have purchased dinner pre-made from the grocery store. That happened last year, and I spent all of dinner trying […]