We’re leaving for Ross Lake tomorrow (yeah!) and won’t be back until the end of next week.  I will miss being here.
Until then, I have a little proposition for you.  If you’re in the Seattle area, have some free time next week (I’m excluding people by the second, I know) AND want to turn on [...]

In my second post ever (where my loyal sister commented twice, bless her heart), I talked about how there’s nothing like after-church hunger.  It’s still true.  Occasionally, I sit through church passively, but normally, I work up an appetite.  Today, I led prayers, cried through the sermon, kept track of the kids during lunchtime, and [...]

A couple weeks ago, I said that the first man to comment on this post would get a savory galette.  Karl picked it up today, and it couldn’t have gone to a more appreciative fan.
No recipe, per se, but :  sauteed some chard from my garden with garlic and butter/olive oil, then added sliced leeks [...]

Recipe for crankiness:

Eat a small breakfast and late lunch
Run catering errands with a two-year old that screams, “I’m cold!” the whole time you’re in Uwajimaya
Go to Costco at lunchtime while everyone and their mother are there for Polish dogs
Bring home a rotisserie chicken whose aroma in the car makes your already acute hunger unbearable
Beat yourself [...]

If Yancey and I had kept stats on our fights over our 14-year marriage, most of the pie chart would be taken up with “fights because Sarah was hungry.”  I don’t know if I technically have low blood sugar, but anecdotally, I do.  Famously so. We argue about the dumbest things while I’m trying to [...]