Quick & Easy: Chicken Lo Mein
Is there anything more satisfying than a noodle dish? Think about it: pasta with rich meat sauce or hearty mushrooms, egg noodles topped with smothered chicken or tender brisket, spaetzle all by itself. The only problem is, most of those require a considerable amount of time, for sauces to simmer and for dried noodles to ...Keep Reading
Trader Joe’s Triple Berry-NOs
Does that bowl match the packaging? Serious fail here, TJ’s. You know I love you, so much that if you were a publicly held company I’d buy stock, but this is a major disappointment. A little back-story: Harry’s been driving us bananas lately, insisting he no longer likes foods that were among his favorites just ...Keep Reading
Bribery, Phase II: With a Recipe for Quick Pasta with Browned Butter, Corn & Almonds
The bribery—excuse me, encouragement via promise of reward—continues anew. Three weeks after our initial breakthrough, when Harry ate a new vegetable every day for fourteen straight days, he continues to try unfamiliar vegs without (much) complaint. But here’s the thing I’m most proud of: He’ll now eat cucumber, carrots, or sugar snap peas for a ...Keep Reading
Wherefore Art Thou, Hamantaschen Recipe of My Dreams?
You may recall that last year around this time, my hamantaschen melted. This year’s recipe was an improvement on that sorry experience, but it’s the first time I’ve ever used the word “infuriating” to describe cookie dough. I thought this would be a fun project to do with Harry, rolling and filling and whatnot, but ...Keep Reading
Sigh.
Last night provided the big rain storm we’d been hoping for, to test our fix-it man’s assertion that the ridonculous number of leaks in our kitchen had been fully sealed. Yeah, not so much. It started out promisingly enough, with no leakage all throughout the day. But that was just garden-variety rain. Once the deluge ...Keep Reading
