Putting two large pots of turkey stock out on the back stoop as freezer space is at a premium, going out to get one of them two days later, and discovering it snowed over and frozen to the flagstone.
“We’ve got a mound of cookies and sweets big enough for 5 people to eat for a week. Let’s throw most of them out before they either go stale or induce a coma.”
“Wait, no, throwing away food is bad! Let’s just eat them all right now!”
14 for Christmas dinner, 9 of them sleeping in this house. Many cooks in the kitchen. Frantic dashes over to John and Mike’s for a table, chairs, and foodstuffs. My mom overfilling the blender with hollandaise and exploding steaming yellow goo all over one side of the kitchen. My grandmother Marzi’s [...]
It’s the night before the night before the night before Christmas, and hoo boy, the creatures are stirring. Kate and I baked multiple batches of 6* different kinds of cookies over Sunday and Monday, managing to thoroughly trash and resurrect the kitchen, Lazarus-like, twice in 2 days. (Surprise cookie hit this year: Oatmeal [...]
I’ve just pulled an all-nighter for the first time in … well, a while. Work required it, and my name was on the dotted line, so I buckled in and haven’t slept yet.
Aside from the physical symptoms (which are pretty non-remarkable, other than a mild case of OMGWTF from my stomach), I’m finding myself [...]