I must confess: I am a world-class perfectionist. So much so that I put off a lot of things that I don’t do well enough, and thus cannot be judged on them. One of those things is cooking. If you could see the piles of recipe tear-sheets, you would think that I were a caterer, […]
It’s Monday again, and a jam-packed soccer weekend has once again passed us by. The yard has been spring cleaned; all the dead foliage has been cleared away, bushes are pruned, the grass has been cut and the beddings edged. Before you get overly impressed with our work ethic, I must confess that we outsourced […]
My brain has expensive taste: find a magazine with a beauty product article and I will immediately begin to covet the most expensive item. So, whenever bottle reduction kicks into high get, I of course hope that the “best” will remain, and that I will reject the mundane and cheap(er). Try telling that to my […]
Can I give thanks that yesterday is over? The storm was crazy: my brain switched back to winter, and I self-medicated by making Peeps brûlée, a delicate treat whereby you skewer a Peep and then caramelize the sugary coating over a stovetop burner. The problem is, it’s hard to stop with one (or two) … […]
I must have fallen into a wayback machine, because when I woke up this morning, I saw January. No joke – this picture was taken five minutes ago, and it’s blowing and snowing like a good old blizzard. Yuck. I’m resisting the urge to get in my car and drive south …. weather can really […]
