Archive for the ‘experiments’ Category
rainy day cupcakes
Posted by: Sarah on: January 6, 2008
It’s been overcast this weekend, and it finally started to rain this morning, and while I wouldn’t go so far as to say I find the dark and slightly dank inspiring, I will tell you that I’ve always liked the way rain-splotched light looks in my kitchen. It’s soft and cool — rare commodities for [...]
almost there
Posted by: Sarah on: December 10, 2007
When I was eleven years old, my mom got tired of listening to me beg for treats and chucked (okay, handed) the Joy of Cooking in my general direction and told me to figure it out on my own.
Except, she said it nicely, because my mother is a very nice woman.
Still, at the age [...]
soup’s on
Posted by: Sarah on: November 26, 2007
The secret shame is that I have an affinity for Blueprint, the hipster nesting mag from Martha Stewart Omnimedia. The more secret shame? I tried a recipe from this quarter’s issue, more specifically, the Cauliflower and Roasted Garlic Soup.
Of course, being me, I didn’t bother reading past the ingredients list (and even then, I was [...]
chickie pie
Posted by: Sarah on: November 19, 2007
Growing up, chicken pie was a regular Sunday night dinner. It was one of my very favorites, but rather labor-intensive, which is probably why Mum saved it for the weekends and special occasions like my birthday or the fall of communism.
Later, when I was living on my own, I asked her for the recipe, [...]
overflow
Posted by: Sarah on: November 19, 2007
The idea that Thanksgiving is on Thursday still hasn’t taken hold, not even after spending a weekend fighting for the last bag of Las Cruces pecans, not after watching a chorus line of Butterballs go down grocery conveyor belts, not even after having the “what should I bring” with conversation with my mother. It was [...]
it’d be criminal
Posted by: Sarah on: October 29, 2007
The Capt’n and I have a sushi joint. A place where we go at the end of a long week, a place where they know us, and within a minute of sitting down, we’re given soup, and tea and questions about the week. Seriously, it’s enough to make me wish they’d named the Capt’n “Norm,” [...]
the labor day project
Posted by: Sarah on: September 1, 2007
Last winter, the Capt’n’s parents converted their guest room into a home office and gave us some of their furniture. Specifically, we became the owners of a twin bed with trundle and a small bedside table. The beds were shoved into what has been affectionately dubbed “the junk room,” but I didn’t have a clue [...]
throwdown of the morning
Posted by: Sarah on: August 29, 2007
The Company has crappy coffee. I don’t think stating that The Company has crappy coffee impugns The Company’s honor in any way, given how generous it is with its employees (Hello, raise!), it’s just a fact. The coffee? Isn’t something to swan over. Hell, I’d speculate that unless you work for a small, independent coffee [...]
crappy monday mushrooms
Posted by: Sarah on: August 28, 2007
When I rang the Capt’n, it was a catalog of doom which began and ended with “The Civic blew up.”
While that’s not exactly true — only the battery went kablammo — it’s knocked us down a car, and the Capt’n is already in the middle of an engine transplant. My car is it for the [...]
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