Yogurt

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. (thanks, honey!) Now I have only one wee little problem; I can’t get the frakin’ memory card out of the camera. So until I can sweet talk it into handing over the evidence, (I’m considering using a can opener…) you’re just going to have to believe me when I tell you that there is a quart jar filled to the brim with delicious yogurt waiting in my kitchen.

March 15th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: cooking, food | 2 comments

Dinner This Week Will Be…

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 Sauce
Best Make-Ahead Recipe p. 95

Two new dishes will be premiering on the menu this week: Cauliflower and Caramelized Onion Tart, courtesy of smitten kitchen, and Sausage and Roasted Vegetable Penne from Ten Dollar Dinners with Melissa d’Arabian. Keep your fingers crossed that they turn out well.

March 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: cooking, food | One comment

Return of the Weekly Menu

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 Out
Saturday – Roast Chicken
Sunday – Potstickers

March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: family | 2 comments

Quick Wisteria Update

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

Wisteria Post-Steek

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 Corgi-warmer. Hard to tell.

February 25th, 2010 | Category: knitting | 2 comments

A Craftacular Valentine's Day

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 so…

The Cupcakes have been agitating to decorate for Valentine’s Day for weeks now. I managed to hold them off for the entire month of January, but today I gave in. This afternoon the girls and I made a quick run to the craft store for supplies. Thirty plus dollars later we emerged with a low-temp glue gun, construction paper, foam hearts and enough glittery stickers to cover at least one of the dogs. Let the madness begin:





In unrelated knitting news Wisteria is nearly complete. Hooray! I didn’t make my self-imposed deadline, but it will be done in time for Madrona.

OK, I’d better go before the girls start decorating each other.

February 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: family, knitting | 3 comments
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