As you may remember, I spent last week in St. Louis visiting the midwestern branch of my family. It was the kids’ spring break and all of their friends had high-tailed it for Florida or other points south, so I was hoping to be able to provide some in-house entertainment. The first part of the [...]
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Really chocolatey cupcakes
Posted in baking, family, St. Louis on April 1, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Posted in cooking, family, food on February 14, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Sunday mornings around here are usually an occasion for lingering over breakfast and the newspaper. S is a great breakfast chef and always makes something delicious; flipping pancakes or scrambling eggs to the strains of our favorite Sunday tunes: Charlie Haden and Hank Jones’s album Steal Away: Spirituals, Hymns and Folk Songs. To celebrate that [...]
Crab cakes anyone?
Posted in cooking, family, food, Oregon on January 21, 2010 | 5 Comments »
My husband S and my brother T are great friends. One of the things they love to do together is cook. As far as I can remember, the first food they conspired on were crab cakes, and for a long time they never made them except when they could do it together. These days, though, [...]
