Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

I’ve been trying for some time to find the origins of our family eggnog recipe. My grandmother, who started the tradition within our family, and my mother, who took it over for her, are both gone, and I never thought to ask either of them while I had them. If I had a dime for [...]

Dear friends, For Christmas this year, I’m sharing with you a recipe that has never, to my knowledge, been shared publicly outside my family. I checked with my aunts several months ago and got their blessing to share it. This is our eggnog recipe. Our family has been making it for at least 50 years. [...]

Maybe someday I’ll write up a more detailed travelogue (realistically, probably not), but we just got back from a week in Portsmouth, NH, which was a lovely change from the 100+ degree temperatures we’ve been having lately. The highest it got there was about 83 degrees, and we almost froze with the 60 degree temps [...]

This year our tamales were made with: Lard we rendered ourselves, Feral hog we killed and butchered ourselves, And serranos we grew in the garden. On another note, I was baking chocolate chip cookies earlier and was moving one of the loaded cooling racks around and one of its supports collapsed and ka-WHOOSH, there was [...]

The best part about working in the garden with the kids is that you can squirt them with the hose when you’re done. But then, with pre-meditated coldness, they insist on giving Mommy a big hug afterwards. The chumps. Finally got the radishes, carrots, peas, and onions all set. Need to see if we can [...]

I just discovered the neatest trick. You know how, when you get a bag of microwave popcorn out of the microwave, your instinct is to hold it by the top and shake it? Well, turn it over and hold it by the bottom. All the unpopped kernels will come out of the slit.

My husband and I have been to Restaurant Jezebel several times, the latest of which was tonight. I keep meaning to blog about it and keep forgetting. Today was our 10th wedding anniversary, so I made reservations for Jezebel and let them know we had a celebration. When we got there, we were seated promptly [...]

Some numbers: 2 – accounts hacked last week ? – number of days the cat box was broken while we were out of town, necessitating a game of “Piss and Seek) 2 – toilets clogged up the other morning 2 – children sick at the moment In lighter news: 3 – feral hogs came home [...]