We found some ripe organic strawberries at Whole Foods yesterday, and I got a hankering for strawberry shortcake. I love strawberry shortcake. It carries warm childhood memories of my 6th birthday, when my mother made it for my birthday cake, and surprised me with handmade Strawberry Shortcake curtains for my bedroom. I had a Strawberry […]
Well, the snow is here–but so are the doughnuts. We found this cute little donut maker half-price at Target this weekend. It was just in time to warm up the kitchen…and procure some very big smiles. Cash had his own plans for those doughnuts, but he ended up with a spoonful of mashed banana instead, poor […]
Caleb had an assignment for science class to make a 3-D model of a cell. He chose a plant cell, and we all thought a cake would be an interesting (and yummy) rendition. We found a recipe for a dense yellow cake and a basic vanilla frosting. We cut a third off the finished 9″x13″ cake and set it […]
The corn-and-sugar-eating members of the family got an itch to make popcorn balls. David found this recipe online and off to the kitchen they went. It’s a honey/sugar/molasses-based recipe, and they all said it made a lip-smackin caramel. I took their word for it; I’m so much better off at a good distance from both popcorn and […]
We had such a yummy Thanksgiving feast. A juicy turkey, gravy, red chile, stuffing, mashed potatoes, roasted carrots, raw cranberry-fruit sauce, raw walnut-carrot stuffing, David’s “green jello” (watergate salad), eggnog, sparkling apple cider, and pumpkin pie with whipped cream. Caleb peeled the potatoes in record time (really–5 minutes to peel that giant bag from Costco?) while […]
