These go fast, so make much much more than you imagine your children could ever eat. We’ve made these with every kind of potato–purple, fingerling, russet, new, red, you name it. Each type has a slightly different baking time though, so you might want to bake them separately if you’re doing different types together. Ingredients: [...]
Read more...We put in some time in the garden this weekend, and I think I finally understand those people who think slapping bugs and pulling weeds is relaxing. It was delightful. I sat myself down in the wet dirt and wrestled with the overgrown jungle in our backyard. There was no traffic concerning me. I didn’t [...]
Read more...It’s time. We are ready to hit the road, Jack. Heck yeah we’re bringing Jack; who’d you think was going to do all the driving and the refueling and the feeding and entertaining of whining kids? OK, not really. It would be delightful to have imaginary handy Jack along, but it’ll just be the four [...]
Read more...On the plus side, the unexpected plethora of water falling from the sky has turned our arid yard into a backyard jungle. It’s just been a bit unfortunate for my little swimmers, who have been turning blue with cold while dodging thunderstorms at practice. Acadia addressed the issue by pairing her swim suit with cowboy [...]
Read more...So it looks like I planted the spinach a little too late. And the lettuce. And the cucumbers were perhaps to fragile as tiny sprouts to withstand my man-handling of them into the garden. Either way, as far as veggies go so far, looks like I missed the boat. The boat I was trying to [...]
Read more...According to the gardening gurus it’s time to plant potatoes, but all I’m doing is eating a whole lot of doughnuts. Ahhh, the anti-healthy all-terrible non-nutritional terrific-tasting doughnut. Nothing takes the sting out of stress like a deep friend treat dipped in chocolate. And I’ve been a bit stressed lately, what with my eight year-old [...]
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