Archive for the 'breakfast' Category
Homemade English Muffins
January 4th, 2010by Lisa I don’t bake nearly as frequently nor with as much passion as Caroline or finesse as my husband, but I do go on baking sprees, and this holiday vacation was no exception. Inspired by discovering my family’s love of English Muffins, and a few great blog posts, I decided to bake my own. [...]
Breakfast Alone
December 8th, 2009By Lisa In the rush to write all about how I haven’t been cooking, I forgot one very important meal: Breakfast. It’s not unheard of that the kids, these days, will serve themselves breakfast alone. They do a good job of selecting cereal, bagels, milk, juice, fruit–whatever they can find that strikes their fancy. Sometimes, [...]
Picadillo, Let me count the ways…
November 16th, 2009by Lisa Over labor day weekend, I flew to Los Angeles to visit my friend, Melissa Clark, the novelist (not the food writer). You can read her book about a girl impregnated by a lazy sperm or catch up with her on her blog. Melissa is one of those friends you thank the world for [...]
Apple Cake, Thanks to Mickey
November 8th, 2009by Caroline It was late Sunday afternoon, and Tony was cooking dinner while the boys and I sat on the couch, reading. Ben was buried in his new book, The Mad Scientists’ Club and Eli and I were reading In the Night Kitchen. When I turn to the last page, I always stop reading and [...]
It’s the Great Pumpkin Pancake, Charlie Brown
October 30th, 2009by Caroline Today after school we will finally carve all the pumpkins that have been sitting on our front stoop this month. I’ll save the seeds, to toast and eat during a post-dinner showing of It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and then I’ll need a quick dinner that doesn’t add much to the general [...]
Pumpkin Time
October 22nd, 2009by Caroline It happens every year, the clamor for pumpkin treats: pie, cupcakes, pancakes, muffins. Eli, particularly, adores all things pumpkin and thinks it’s quite reasonable to expect a pumpkin pie for dessert an hour after we return from the pumpkin patch. Well, maybe so, but not with the new pumpkins, certainly. In fact, you [...]
Morale-Boosting Banana Coconut Muffins
October 16th, 2009by Caroline There comes a time in every child’s illness when the child is still too sick to attend school (he’s got to be fever-free for 24 hours) but is too well to lie docilely on the couch watching videos while his mother catches up on her New Yorkers. And that is the time, in [...]
Sweet Rice
September 24th, 2009by Lisa Finn is not like the rest of us. For instance, he just ate a fish taco for breakfast. Also, he loves rice with a passion that makes me wonder if his conception and birth were blessed by Buddha himself. (He has, too, a kind preternatural patience and even-keeled temperament that is positively other-worldly.) [...]
A Gift of Apples
September 21st, 2009by Caroline I did a favor for a writer friend recently, reading her manuscript and writing a blurb for her publisher. It was an easy favor to do– I’d enjoyed her earlier book, a collection of essays called Because I Love Her, and expected I’d like the new one, which I really did. So when [...]
One Flat of Apricots. No Jam.
July 20th, 2009by Caroline I know I should make jam. Every summer the local paper runs an article about jam making, with lots of delicious-looking recipes and helpful instructions. Every summer my good friend invites me over to her kitchen to make jam with her. I know it’s not hard, and the fact that I don’t have [...]