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I made some dinner Sunday night. (For those of you who regularly cook that might not be such a big deal, but I haven’t cooked much in quite a while. Saturday night’s dinner was peanut butter sandwiches on stale bread – a real high point.) Anyway, I made some chicken-and-rice thing where the last step [...]

I took a stab at making a non-artisan-bread-in-five-minutes dough today. We were going to have chili for dinner, and apparently in the midwest it is blasphemous to not have cinnamon rolls with chili, and I did not want to anger the chili gods. I’ve posted about my grandmother’s recipe before, and how it involved a [...]

We are having an inservice/Week of the Young Child event tomorrow evening at school and the staff is bringing snacks. I cut up some cheese and sausage, but felt bad that I wasn’t going to bake anything. I’m pretty sure there will be plenty of food, but I thought maybe I could make shortbread. Problem: [...]

Note to self: when we make fajitas, that is to say, when Lauren makes fajitas, remember to put the sour cream on first, so that you don’t just end up with two big globs of sour cream on yours. I don’t really remember when I had my first fajita. I would say it was in [...]

Have I written before about working in a doughnut shop? Long ago in college I worked at The Donut Gallery. Brad worked with me there for a while, but he was too smart to continue to stay under our harsh working conditions, so he left. I stayed because even though the pressure was high, there [...]

Remember that 100-grain hot cereal I was all crazy for? Well, it’s still good, but I hardly ever eat it. You know how middle-aged kids are – they go on eating jags (hot cereal, homemade bread, chicken pot pie) and then they never go back. Well, I wanted pancakes this weekend and thought I could [...]