The Shaamir wedding has come and gone (and of course the pictures are on Facebook already), leaving us all with just enough time to turn our focus elsewhere: Ramadan. It has arrived. Quietly, this year, or possibly that was just me, since I’ve been caught up in the Shaamir extravaganza for the past couple of [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...There are cherries at the grocery store. I love cherries. I wanted to make a cherry pie, my very first. (NO INAPPROPRIATE JOKES. This is a PG blog.) Living in the South, I have limited access to cherries, which means the plethora of sour cherry pie recipes available on the internets does me no good [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Coming tomorrow because a) my carpal tunnel has been acting up and b) some unexpected work blindsided me this evening. I know what I want to say, though, so… tomorrow.
In other news, lemon yogurt cake is even yummier when you actually top it with the lemon/sugar syrup, but I think if I were going [...]
When you’re out of practice with pie crust, it takes a long time to roll out, especially if maybe you didn’t add quite as much water as you should have the night before when you set it to refrigerate. And if it takes a long time to roll out and you didn’t exactly start early [...]
» Read the rest of this entry ...Tonight, as I was in Publix picking up for a few things for the week and chatting with Dan (and by extension, Micah) when suddenly something caught my attention, causing me to break off the conversation mid-sentence.
“What? What happened?” Dan asked in the tone of voice a person might use if he suspected the person [...]
Ahh, cookies. ‘Tis the season, you know.
(Although, really, I don’t understand that. Why is it the season for cookies? Why not cupcakes? Are cupcakes just a trend? Why don’t people churn out cookies by the dozen for, oh, Fourth of July? Or Arbor Day? Aren’t those perfectly good days to eat cookies?)
The last few pages [...]
The second time around, the tarts were much more manageable, and very yummy too.
Here’s hoping your Thanksgivings were awesome… any culinary triumphs (or disasters) to report on your end?
I think I got a little too big for my britches today.
I tentatively put the cranberry, caramel, and almond tarts from Smitten Kitchen on my Thanksgiving menu, but because I’ve never done anything like that before, I figured it might be a good idea to do a test run before I actually attempted them for [...]
I wonder if it should tell me something that I do this so much.
I’m up in Tarrytown for work (meetings don’t actually start until tomorrow, but they’re being nice and not making me take a 6 a.m. flight), and while the Internet connection is flawless, I’m not really very surprised to discover my cell service [...]
Y’all. Ramadan Mubarak. This is going to be the BEST. RAMADAN. EVER.
How do I know?
Because of the cookies. The cookies, they are a sign.
Today after sunset I went to Walgreens — not my usual Walgreens as for some bizarre reason I picked the one that is closer to me but completely out of my way [...]