Category Archives: Cooking Life

Quick, easy dinner that’s bowl-lickin’ good

I’m sure we can’t do this too often, but we cooked up pasta carbonara for dinner tonight. When the kids are licking the bowl as they did tonight, you can take satisfaction in knowing you did a good job. On the flip side, the leftover bacon has already been claimed by Camille for breakfast in [...]
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Goodbye sun tea. Hello fridge tea.

Based on a comment about our summer experiment with sun tea, I put the kibosh on leaving the Ball jar outside. The thought of bacteria harming the kids, well, I just wanted to be safe and not sorry. Hello fridge tea. The Snopes link provided a good alternative. And the taste is still better than brewing [...]
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Sun tea

I think I’ve turned my husband into a Southerner. He has developed a deep love of iced tea, to the point that he became fascinated with the idea of making sun tea. The only glass pitcher we had with a top, however, was my very old Snoopy orange juice pitcher. He made a perfectly marvelous [...]
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Our child is warming to warm cereal

The headline of this post begs the question: Why? Why does Camille now want to eat oatmeal with Mommy and Daddy every morning? The last part of the question: “…with Mommy and Daddy…” needs to be dissected. She wants to eat it with us during breakfast but she has a special request for how it’s prepared. She [...]
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3 minutes to bliss

Two ingredients and four steps leads you to chocolate ganache. A few more minutes, you get chocolate truffles. Simple, no? Good? We’ll see. The weekend’s almost here and I want to experiment.
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