Posts Tagged ‘Gifts’

Take it from someone who uses recipes like a cane as she limps her way through the kitchen: you don’t need a recipe to make chili. It’s just a mishmosh of ingredients thrown into a pot and cooked down until the feeling’s right.
It’s meant to be flexible and unfussy. Sometimes I brown some beef, sometimes [...]

Last night my mother cooked me an amazing birthday dinner in her backyard.

There were lots of fun decorations. And sombreros.
Jack zoomed around the backyard and investigated every bug and old baseball.
The Boyfriend played soccer with my little cousin.
My mother dropped the plate of hamburgers and hot dogs as they were about to go on the [...]

Food, of course.
Okay, maybe this rule only applies to me. And my sister. Who celebrated a very snowy birthday last weekend with lots of yummy eats.
We met up in New York for some sisterly birthday celebrations, which entailed walking, talking, and eating. All day long.
Most of the day was spent tooling around Soho and the [...]

I don’t know where this week has gone.  It seems like Christmas was yesterday. I’ve been off in La La Land a little, but now I’m back home and ready for a holiday recap!

After presents Christmas morning, my mother got to work on Christmas dinner.  The main course was Cornish game hens:

Jack gave her some [...]

Christmas morning always started early when my sister and I were kids, but these days we like to sleep in! We keep to our traditions though.  One of us grab the stocking that Santa left on our bed and go wake the other sister.  Then we dig through our stockings before creeping downstairs and peering [...]