Sorry, those of you who remain indifferent to pizza.  Here’s the latest Sunday version.  Three guesses what it’s topped with. Sarah’s leftover grilled peppers!!  The most exciting thing about this photo, though, is the vase of lilacs that Yancey and Wyatt stole for me on Mother’s Day morning.  My mom is Queen of Lilac Stealing, [...]

One of the best things about this blog is that it’s put me in contact with people on the fringes of my life.  If I’ve ever doubted my extrovert status, I don’t anymore.  Some of you are laughing right now.  Isn’t it funny how other people sometimes know us so much better than we know [...]

I am so spoiled.  Privileged.  Lucky.  Whatever you call it, I am not in an office today, not standing in line to buy an overpriced sandwich from Starbucks, not sitting through dull meetings wishing I was in my kitchen.  I am in my kitchen/dining room/home office (our house is 750 sq. ft.), and the glorious prospect of [...]

The good news is this pasta was delicious.  The bad news is the whole pan of oven-dried tomatoes has been demolished already.  There go all my meal plans for the week.  And my serving had more tomatoes on it than Yancey’s– I’ve been watching the kids all week, so I think that’s a fair trade.

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It’s 5:00 in the Rainier Valley.  By 6:00 I have to make an appetizer, get the kids’ shoes on (figure 45 minutes for that), drop them off on Capitol Hill, and be at a meeting in Issaquah (effectively across the continent at this point).  Thank God I have leftover olive tapenade from Easter.  I’ll just [...]