Tag: cooking

  • Making Stock of Things

    Making Stock of Things

    I’m going to blog a little differently today, as I am looking outside at 4-5 fresh fallen inches of snow, and more coming down on that. In addition to the ‘you ARE staying home today’ message this sends, I have had a very busy week in which I did not cook. Well, yes, there was…

  • Cookbooks

    I’m sure I ate stuff this week. But at the moment, I have a head full of congestion, and my brain isn’t firing on all cylinders. Maybe I need to do what my Dad swears by for congestion, and eat a spoonful of tabasco sauce (the only one I have in the kitchen right now…

  • No Food

    No food porn today, I’m afraid. It’s been a *momentous* week, and tomorrow, school. We’ve had a conversation, and my dear First Reader has pointed out he’s going to be picking up a lot of the meal prep. It’s hard for me, I’m by training a housewife, and I’m used to being the one cooking,…

  • Cooking with Cast Iron

    I’ve been cooking with cast iron all my life, as my mother and grandmother, and great-grandmother before me all did. I know they did, I learned to cook in their kitchens by watching them, and then cooking at home. Now that I’m grown up, Dad and I have amassed quite the collection here on the…