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This Is Working Even Better Than I’d Expected

k2 — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:55:23 +0000

Two girls + Two Wonder Knitters + Two Skeins of Red Heart Super Saver = Blessed Quiet

Now all I need to do is come up with something to do with the enormous yarn snakes they’re making.

Lunch Box Time

k2 — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:35:56 +0000

My calendar tells me that June is here, even if the weather vehemently disagrees. (As I type this it is 55 degrees outside and raining.) Beginning the first week of June the girls’ preschool goes into ‘camp mode’. Every Friday they take a mini-field trip to a neighborhood park and each child brings a sack [...]

Look What I Made This Morning

k2 — Sun, 23 May 2010 20:57:16 +0000

Recipe here.

Honestly, I do make things besides sweet breads. Really. They just don’t end up being photographed.

Dinner this Week

k2 — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:56:48 +0000

Not a terribly exciting post, but it *is* about food. Here’s what we’ll be eating this week.

(Click on the image to see a larger version.)

Easter

k2 — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:26:55 +0000

A belated Easter post is better than none at all, right? As my husband has already done a lovely family holiday recap, complete with photos, I will content myself with showing off my contribution to the holiday: bread.

The husband loves bread. Not likes bread, LOVES bread. And I love my husband, so I baked.

He [...]

Yogurt

k2 — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:33:07 +0000

I’m making yogurt today. After messing up the first batch (don’t ask) the second came out looking wonderful. Right now I’m just waiting for it to set. I even took pictures.

Or at least I think I did. You see, I can’t find my lovely point-and-shoot camera so I borrowed DH’s , wonderful, insanely complicated one. [...]

Dinner This Week Will Be…

k2 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:07:12 +0000

Monday – Potstickers Tuesday – Sausage and Roasted Vegetable Penne Wednesday – Minestrone Soup Thursday – Cauliflower and Caramelized Onion Tart Friday – Out Saturday – Pan-Roasted Chicken Breasts Best Make-Ahead Recipe p. 93 Sunday – Linguini with Chicken, Artichokes & Peas in Garlic Cream [...]

Return of the Weekly Menu

k2 — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:21:06 +0000

I haven’t posted my weekly menu for, um, a while, but I’m aiming to improve. As proof of my good intentions I would like to present this week’s menu:

Monday – Pasta with Broccoli Rabe Tuesday – Spinach and Mushroom Lasagna Wednesday – Pasta w/Creamy Roasted Red Pepper Sauce Thursday – Potato, Leek and Chickpea Soup Friday – Parents’ Night [...]

Quick Wisteria Update

k2 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:43:26 +0000

I apologize for neglecting your questions about Wisteria. Here’s what it looks like now that it’s been steeked:

I still need to finish the first button band, pick up and knit the second one, add the button loops and sew on the buttons. When that is done I will have a lovely neck gaiter. Or maybe [...]

A Craftacular Valentine’s Day

k2 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:12:56 +0000

The husband is out of town right now. That means that the girls are in danger of having some small part of their lives go undocumented. I would hate for them to be the only ones in their graduating class not to have every single event, no matter how insignificant, be fully recorded for posterity [...]