Valentine’s Day, Apolo Ohno’s 6th medal in a kick-ass race (did you see his semi-final run?), Chinese New Year – it was a busy weekend! And a busy eating weekend.
While Ohno gets his rush from speeding like a maniac on steel blades, some of us find pleasure in things a bit less…fast. Food carries much [...]
This is out of control.
For the past 6 days, I have been confined to a 1000 square foot apartment with a dazed and confused 3 year old, a 1 year old trapeze artists (she has been doing flips off of my couch) and my visiting mother.
With the exception of a few trips to the trash [...]
At 3am in the morning, I heard a incredibly loud ‘bang,’ followed by a thunderous symphony of running feet and then a ‘Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. There are dragons. In my room. Can I get in the bed? Help me. Help me in the bed, peas?”
I wouldn’t mind so much that my 3 year old [...]
This past weekend, I invited a group of families over for an all-you-can-eat buffet style brunch. Prior to the presence of children in our midst, my husband and I used to be very comfortable entertaining guests at our place regularly. Now, it is essentially sheer madness to coordinate the preparation of meals and child rearing [...]
Some people are rude.
The other day, I was hunched over in a very narrow aisle at my local grocery store searching for a jar of relish when a female of the human race muttered (loudly), “Do you mind? You are taking up the entire aisle. I can hardly get around you.”
A simple ‘excuse me’ would [...]
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“I’m Popeye the Sailor Man
I live in a frying pan
I turn on the gas
And burn off my…”
Oh wait, sorry, that was the naughty playground version. Most of us remember Popeye and his loyal use of spinach in lieu of modern day protein shakes to pump up his famous forearms to woo his fiancé of [...]
My husband took my older daughter (3 years old) to see the recent Chipmunk (Alvin, Simon and Theodore – remember them?) movie at the theatre. Upon their return, my daughter came bouncing in through the door with her hips rapidly ticking to the left and right as she blared out a version of Beyonce’s “All [...]
Now that I’m 10 pounds heavier, I hope all of you celebrated with good food wherever you were and with whomever.
I had a quiet, lovely holiday with Cake Mountain Man and our dear friend, L. Our Christmas dinner was capped by L’s Cornish Game Hens with homemade gravy and butternut squash stuffing…
…and his HOMEMADE pumpkin [...]
Before having my own children, my mother was responsible for managing/sustaining family tradition and for demonstrating its relationship to our identity and ancestry. As a child, I had limited concern for the significance of many things, including tradition. As long as the event/custom/tradition/whatever involved good times, I was set.
Well, I still enjoy good times, but [...]
I apologize for the quality (or lack thereof) of the photo…only had my phone with me, and I wanted to share this quick easy awesome recipe BEFORE next week’s holiday festivities in case you are looking for a great side for Christmas or got “stuck” making the greens.
I tested this with 103 random people, and [...]
