Musings from a servantless, stay-at-home, cooking-obsessed mom
Posted in Cooking & Eating, Parenting & Family on Oct 31st, 2011
My Dad told me that he doesn’t like radishes. Then I served him this crostini, and he gobbled up about 8 pieces. Awesome, peeps, awesome. Happy Halloween, y’all! The boys are going through their loot like fiends now. Whoa!
Posted in Cooking & Eating on Oct 31st, 2011
Ooh, just made some homemade caramel dipping sauce for the apples I’m bringing to celebrate the Halloween parade at J’s school. Don’t y’all think they’ll love this?
Posted in Cooking & Eating on Oct 31st, 2011
The carrots just emerged, steaming and fragrant, from the oven. Yum. I love lemon-roasted carrots, but tarragon and carrots have the same sweetness about them so I thought it’d be a nice coupling, a bit of an update to the regular. And I wanted to get the radishes washed and readied for later when I [...]
Posted in Cooking & Eating on Oct 31st, 2011
Do you know what it is almost time to make? Rum balls. This recipe hails from my mom’s sister’s husband’s family. Quite a mouthful, yes? But we are lucky to have been introduced to this fabulous treat, and I look forward to them every year. Having finally procured the recipe, I will make my first [...]
Posted in Cooking & Eating on Oct 30th, 2011
People, I was sidelined by an insanely awful muscle spasm under my right shoulder blade today. It was so awful that I had to buzz out for a few hours, get a massage (disappointing) and take a muscle relaxer. Not a welcome interruption to my day. And it’s a bummer to pay for a massage [...]
Posted in Cooking & Eating, Libations on Oct 30th, 2011
These asparagus (not yet cooked in this pic) were so good last night, as was the Bolognese and other roasted veggies. We enjoyed a great bottle of wine too (Hess Select Block 19, Mount Veeder, Napa) and all went to bed stuffed and happy. Today is the first really, really cold day but it’s gorgeous [...]