Recent Posts Tagged With 'food'

• A Chocolate Cake

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 02:00 in food

  {chocolate cake, The Joy of Vegan Baking} I tried to hide the Halloween candy from The Mister. Truly, I did. Actually, I was hiding it from The Mister’s notorious, insatiable, unrelenting sweet tooth and a certain 2.5 year old scamp with a n...

• The Chef

  Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 16:08 in recipes, food, the boys

  Yesterday Mikey announced he had created a recipe in his head that he would like to make for dinner and “I want you to take pictures of it and put it on your website, okay, mom?  Then I want you to tell me what the people say.” So that&...

• Gifts & Labels

  Posted on Tuesday October 20th, 2009 at 02:00 in business, food, crafts

  Last weekend I started baking again.  I made an enormous batch of whole wheat bread dough, enough for four loaves, but forgot I only have two bread pans.  Luckily, I was able to borrow two more from my neighbor.  I returned the bread pans that da...

• Magical Coconut Bars

  Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 02:00 in food, things i like

  {Magical Coconut Bars photo credit: Post Punk Kitchen} Or as I labeled them for the school bake sale, Coconut & Dark Chocolate Gooey Bars (Vegan: no dairy, no eggs). I thought law school was competitive, but that was before I participated my fir...

• He Likes Them Apples

  Posted on Tuesday August 4th, 2009 at 16:31 in family, food, the boys

  Something tells me that I wouldn’t be shaped like an eggplant if I went through this much trouble to eat apples. p.s. This was his third apple in less than an hour.  He was mad at me because I refused to give it to him another one, so he went...

• The End of the Season

  Posted on Monday July 27th, 2009 at 17:44 in family, fun, food

  Well, I’m done.  All that hand wringing and stress is over with.  In celebration, today I am light headed and have a migraine.  Oh, and I’m recuperating from Shingles, which I had the honor of contracting 2 weeks ago.  What can I say?...

• Coke Bloat: Not Just For Lindsey Lohan

  Posted on Friday July 10th, 2009 at 11:07 in food, baby hippo love

  Last Friday we went out to dinner with friends.  In honor of the occasion, I spent 20 minutes getting ready and all but flew into a red cotton dress that feels like I am wearing pajamas.  The dress accommodated my watercraft-sized breasts nicely b...

• The State of All Things Normal

  Posted on Friday May 15th, 2009 at 00:05 in family, food, the boys, narcissism

  This week my mom called me to ask if I was still writing my blog.  I told her yes, and gave her the address.  The next day she called me in a downright chipper mood to tell me she was very proud of me.  I was not so shocked that I couldn’t a...

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  Posted on Tuesday April 21st, 2009 at 22:03 in shopping, food, stories, narcissism

  I decided to finally tackle the boys’ pink bathroom with the vast amount of money we made at our garage sale. First on my list was to paint the double sink cabinet. You know the one. It’s a charming shade of dinge and has two pink sink...

• Diet Talk | Reader Recipe: Sort-Of Apple Pie

  Posted on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at 12:50 in recipes, food, baby hippo love, cottage cheese and apples, diet apple pie, low point dessert recipes, sort of apple pie

  I have been super excited to try Julie’s recipe for Sort-Of Apple Pie since she emailed it to me a couple of weeks ago. I finally organized my scattered brain enough to get most of the (3!) ingredients. The Mister is at the store right now ge...

• Low Point Foods That Helped: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Dessert

  Posted on Tuesday February 24th, 2009 at 02:00 in health, food, breakfast, things i like, baby hippo love

  In order to eat as clean as I like and still stay within my point value, I’m going to need to rework my recipes and do research on low fat cooking. While I am normally opposed to artifical flavors and colors, preservatives, and ingredients I c...

• Chocolate Shrapnel

  Posted on Monday February 9th, 2009 at 20:30 in food, stories, the boys, what the?, i'm still crazy

  Baking suits me. It’s precise work, where deviating from the recipe is rarely encouraged. My anal, authority respecting personality does well moving from step to step, never once dreaming of substitutions, deviations, or reinterpretations. C...

• Things I Hope to Never Forget | The First Cheeseburger

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 16:42 in food, the boys, unforgettable

  The relevance of this moment lies not in the burger, but that he is old enough to eat by himself.  We always order him grilled cheese sandwiches because they stay together even after you cut them into little bite-size pieces.  The diner made a ...

• Popcorn

  Posted on Tuesday October 21st, 2008 at 23:34 in food

  Have you ever wandered down the aisles of the supermarket, happened upon a yummy snack you haven't had in years, and then gone home and become obsessed with eating said snack night and day? Internet, meet Popcorn. Popcorn, meet Internet.Mikey is eq...