One of the major adjustments to having me working again is our evening dinners. I work until 6:30 pm everynight, with no chance of leaving early. After my drive home, I’m lucky to be in the door around 7 pm. It’s not uncommon for us to actually sit down and eat until 8 or later. [...]
For Christmas I was gifted a new apron (my first!!!) and I love it. Plus I received a cupcake cake mold. I’ve been dying to try it, but didn’t want a giant cupcake left sitting in the house for me to eat. So I volunteered to bring a treat to our activity for the Young [...]
Sunday night Jeremy and I carved our pumpkins that we picked out the weekend before at the farm. I wanted to wait a bit because pumpkins here seem to rot really fast and I wanted my pumpkin to last at least until the ‘Trunk of Treat’ at the church parking lot next week (Blog to [...]
With my luck in the kitchen these days, I think Culinary Capers is going to be a regularly appearing column. I’ll share successes and failures in my quest to become a decent cook. Think back to every job announcement you’ve ever read. Probably under desired qualifications they listed “attention to detail,” which would mean I [...]
Ever since I finished grad school I’ve been cooking. I know it’s hard to believe for many of you since before this time most of my “meals” consisted of Chips and Salsa, a smoothie from my Magic Bullet, or a spoonful of peanut butter. I’m not sure what the catalyst to start cooking “real” meals [...]
Since Abbie still had left-overs from last night I was left to “fend for myself” for lunch today… When Abbie left to blow-dry her hair I decided to pretend I was a bachelor and get creative in the kitchen! Click onward to be both amazed and horrified!
For some reason making bread from scratch, without a bread maker, has always been one of those things I’ve wanted to learn but thought it was too tricky. Bread making seemed so mysterious. There’s all kinds of advice about yeast, and using the right temperature of water. And then all the different flavors of breads [...]
For the last three months Jeremy and I have been participating in a little dinner group with two other couples from church. Back in August , without asking Jeremy, I signed us up to participate. The groups only last three months, and you’re only asked to meet 3 times within those three months. I knew [...]
This summer I really wanted to plant some containers for our back patio, but never did (next year for sure). So instead of relying on harvesting my own food, I tried to go to the farmers market and rely on the harvest these local farmers produced. I fell in love with Farmer’s Markets when I [...]
My first summer in Washington I was on a week long field trip with my cohort. The first morning we headed to the Skagit River Delta. On our way we passed by this little tiny bakery and decided to stop and pick up some treats. Some one in the van said that this bakery had [...]
