I’ve consigned myself to being late and promising not ever to say that I’ll reform my ways when it comes to our monthly Daring Bakers challenges. It seems not to matter what the excuse is, I’ll have one, and having been a teacher for many years, I’d say my excuses rank with the top excuses [...]
July 2009
I saw the shiny orbs of deep garnet bulging from the plastic bag they were packed in and knew I had to have them. The sale price posted above all but screamed my name so I chose a bag and gingerly placed it in my cart after turning it over to inspect its nether regions. [...]
About this time last year, I was editing the nearly 800 photographs I took while on vacation in Italy and as much as I can say that I enjoyed reviewing our trip in front of my Mac, one photo in particular stood out. It was taken the first day we were in Rome from the [...]
When Lis of Daring Baker fame asked me to do a post for The Daring Kitchen for July 4th, I thought, sure, no problema. Absolutely. I’ll get right on that. I imagined all the red, white, and blue possibilites available and scrimped time here and there to google and oogle all that I could find [...]
It’s becoming very apparent that I’m a complete failure at this business of working and trying to keep a food blog. I’m surprised, actually, because for years and years I managed to work a ridiculous number of hours and still have time to occasionally pretend that I might be Martha — sans the income, of [...]
