I made bread today. I haven’t made any in a long time and I used to make it every single Friday – two big, hearty loaves to last a week’s worth of sandwiches, French toast, and slices thick with butter just for a snack.
I started making bread a couple of years ago. I was listening [...]

Filed under: Cooking on October 24th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

We live in the city. Not like a really big city or anything, but a neighborhood, where the kids are walking distance from school and I could ride my bike to the store if I wanted to. (I don’t.)
As a kid, I grew up in the country, ten miles out of our small town. I [...]

Filed under: Beautiful Things, Cooking, Mad Mom on October 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

I am SO shy. I am shy and socially awkward. In fact, it would be better for everyone if the only place I ever was, was where people are not.
That said, The Pioneer Woman came to town today and I was not about to miss it. So I packed up myself and my crippling insecurity, spent [...]

Filed under: Beautiful Things, Cooking, Gifties, Mad Mom, Not painting, On the web, Pet Portraits, Random on April 20th, 2010 | 14 Comments »

Yesterday, for about five seconds, so fast you’d miss it if you blinked, I was on the Rachael Ray Show.
It came about after I sent a proposal into the show after the success of Julia & Julia (my new favorite movie), suggesting that someone (me) could cook through a Rachael Ray cookbook for a year [...]

Filed under: Cooking, Mad Mom, Not painting, Random on January 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Remember Christmas vacation? And I mentioned that I had filmed a segment for the Rachael Ray Show? Well they might actually air it on Monday, January 25. The producer’s exact words, in an email:
“…you should tape the episode on Monday the 25th because there is a possibility that a piece of your video might be [...]

Filed under: Cooking, Not painting, Random on January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments »