Have you been making this all these years and keeping it from me? Where have I been? Growing up, we hardly ever ate chicken, but occasionally we’d have this–plump chicken nestled in creamy, soft rice, so comforting you’d just want to climb in the pan and stay a child forever. But, alarmingly, I’ve never made [...]

One of my favorite things is a weekday lunch at home.  I make the kids whatever they’re clamoring for (”Top Ramen! Top Ramen!”), then scrounge in the fridge.  If there’s leftover soup or pasta, it’s a no-brainer.  Seems we don’t have many leftovers these days, though, since Yancey takes 3 meals plus snacks to the [...]

I am so tired tonight.  As an exercise in pure self-absorption, here’s some speculation about why I’m so tired:
6:30–Wake up with the kids, work until 8:00 while the kids watch cartoons
8:00 –Make breakfast (whole wheat toast with almond butter, scoop of yogurt), get kids dressed, take a shower
9:00–Drop Wyatt off at school
9:30–Go [...]

Gourmet magazine is really gone.  I kept hoping (along with a million other readers) that someone would rescue it from the brink, swoop into their corporate NYC headquarters with a bunch of cash and magnanimity, and keep us all afloat.  No such luck.  The publishing world has substituted Bon Appetit for the remainder of my [...]

I had planned on taking Milo and Loretta to the play gym yesterday morning, but the community center has moved the playtime to 1:00.  What toddlers are awake at 1:00?  Budget cuts, probably.  So we’re in the car, in the middle of a torrential downpour (Did I sing the praises of fall recently?  I take [...]