There’s your musical theater reference to kick off the month. Do you know what show has that song in the score? (Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel” in case you’re wondering.) Last Saturday we were bundled in the stands watching big brother’s track meet. Today, one week later, it was 93 degrees in the shade of the stands. The month of June…
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baseball, dandelions, and croissants
I can remember some soggy Memorial Day weekends. But a cold holiday weekend? This was a first. My little guy and I shivered at his brother’s track meet. We tried to duck the winds and clutched our styrofoam cups of hot chocolate. It rained on and off. After big brother won first place in the 100…
chimichurri in a hurry
Another busy weekend. My older guy ran for the track team and did his first 800 meter for the season. That probably had something to do with him asking for steak for dinner. The botanical garden, in the neighborhood, was having their annual plant sale. The guys wanted to “surprise” me for Mother’s Day. When it’s plant…
corny april treats
Play ball! As April is known to do, it teases us with warm weather one moment, and then changes in an instant. My guys get tired of the “Do-I-need-a-jacket-today?” morning check-ins. April means it’s time to get the fishing gear out. The guys like to head off to some of the local ponds and see what they can catch….
paas – itively delicious easter brunch
There’s the dining room table. It tends to get buried under a blizzard of school notices that come home in backpacks. Really buried. We decided that brunch worked well for everyone for Easter. We would go with Eggs Benedict with the “Holidays” sauce. You read the last post, right? As I said before, I was hoping my…
snap goes asparagus
Nothing signals spring like asparagus. Spring was in the air last weekend. We planned a menu with one of the treats of the season. Sometimes we make asparagus with crumbles of hard-boiled egg, with diced red onion, mellowed in red wine vinegar. We like to dress asparagus in some extra virgin olive oil and a dash…
thyme for tomato soup
Soup’s on. The calendar says the spring season is three weeks away. Yet, winter is dumping some last-minute snow on us in the next few days. And it has been cold and windy. Maybe it was the chill in the air. The guys wanted tomato soup and “special cream.” It is a cold-weather favorite for them. The…
happy valentine’s day and hamburger hearts
“Are we going out for dinner tonight?” the guys asked. No way. Valentine’s Day is a time for some extra love for my boys. But, not at inflated prices. The same dinner, and the same flowers, are half the price the next day. We experimented with hamburger hearts for a Valentine’s dinner last year and…
the incredible, edible egg from a few blocks away
Sunny-side up. Does anything sound happier for breakfast? My guys know, if there is something like a big test in class that day, it calls for a really good breakfast. They usually order eggs and bacon. They are convinced this is the breakfast that helps ace a test. We are lucky our friends have chickens. I think at…
baby, it’s cold outside!
The temperature took a tumble this week! We also had the first snow of the season. It was a great reason to whip up a hot cocoa mix that pleases my guys. I saw this original recipe from Debbie Koenig, when she wrote a guest blog post for Monica Bhide’s blog, http://debbiekoenig.com/2012/12/05/guest-post-monica-bhides-a-life-of-spice/, A Life of Spice. You can…
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