You may remember my wasp sting incident last summer which sent me by ambulance to the hospital to avoid a potentially severe allergic reaction. Well, if you don’t, it spooked me quite a bit from my Postage Stamp gardening. But many of you offered encouraging advice and solid recommendations to get ...
Kitchen Chronicles
Chronicles of a Postage Stamp Gardener: I'm Back!
You may remember my wasp sting incident last summer which sent me by ambulance to the hospital to avoid a potentially severe allergic reaction. Well, if you don’t, it spooked me quite a bit from my Postage Stamp gardening. But many of you offered encouraging advice and solid recommendations to get ...
Baking for Passover
Just took the sliced brisket, gravy and chicken soup out of the freezer for a nice slow thaw before Friday’s Passover Seder dinner. Since I’m hosting this year, there’s a lot to do to prepare for our celebration. And it’s not just the food that will keep me busy since 19 family members arrive Friday ...
Something New Please!
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I don’t think I deprive my kids when it comes to snack food. I actually feel like I’m pretty generous. So when my six year old asked me for a treat the other day with the caveat that he wanted something different than the usual chocolate chip cookie, ice cream cone or ice pop, I was pretty ...
Dragging Through Samosas
I was dragging last Tuesday, really dragging. After a rough morning trying to get the kids ready for school, I’ll admit I was not in the best of moods. All I really wanted to do was to crawl back into bed and start the day again. But when I pulled into Suzy’s driveway for our cooking date, my ...
Winds in Tuscany
““See that fan kids? It simulates the winds in Tuscany.” That’s how Lou introduced his backyard garage smoker set up to my kids who came with me to check on our pulled pork dinner in the making. As we entered Lou’s garage, smoke billowing about, my daughter couldn’t believe the intense whiff of ...
Rave Reviews
Rave reviews from the guys on dinner number two in Suzy and my weekly “new dinner of the week” challenge. Since Suzy chose the fabulous Middle Eastern lentil dish last week, the pressure was on me to select this week’s winning meal. The automatic daily recipe I get from cooking.com for “Lion’s ...
Cookies and Therapy
I had to make two kinds of cookies last week for Bedtime and Books, a cute event at my son’s elementary school that aims to have everything homemade. But since I had a busy week, finding the time to fit everything in was getting difficult. That’s when cooking with friends comes in most handy and ...
Lentils and Blueberry Muffins
I'll take home lentils in exchange for blueberry muffins anytime! Suzy and I got together yesterday to cook and bake. We worked side by side, yet one of us was making something savory and the other something sweet. She was determined to recreate her family's favorite dish, which is called ...
Mom's Meal Mission
Suzy and I were making meatballs together the other day, so while they baked we ate lunch together. We got into a pretty weighty discussion about the “family dinner” challenge and how each of us, even though we have quite a number of staples in our respective repertoires, are getting bored of the ...