I knew I would eventually have to make good my promise to Zia on yesterday’s snowshoe bribe. She woke up asking for chocolate chip cookies–but there was a small problem. The poor kid was doubled over with a bellyache, most likely from that tall cup of hot chocolate with whipped cream and who knows how many […]
The kids have been a little under the weather, so I decided today would be a good day to make a nice hot soup for us all. Or at least, for those of us who love soup–namely, Zia and me. I started by popping a veggie broth cube into some hot water in a little […]
By now, y’all probably know what these little sweeties mean. Yup, the boy is home again. Zia and I were the sleepyheads who stayed home whipping up a scratch batch of chocolate cupcakes while David drove to the airport to pick up Caleb this morning. Actually, they’re not cupcakes at all. They’re double chocolate brownies with […]
First of all, holiday table decorations are very important. Painstakingly so, in fact. Here we have the original Hanging Hanger Thanksgiving Dinner Mobile by Zia. On to secondary things. In the early morning light, David and I began to prepare the very first Thanksgiving dinner we’ve ever cooked together. Always before, we’ve been around family […]
Caleb comes home today…so of course we made you-know-whats. Since I’m still figuring out this high-altitude baking thing, I found a chocolate cupcake recipe especially designed for my 8200′ above sea level. As you can see, it worked–hooray! the cupcakes actually rose. Need I mention Zia’s favorite part? The little scoundrel happily licked both beaters, […]
