Whipped Out

Like Angie, I usually do a weekly menu, but I don’t assign nights for the different meals, partly because our evenings are almost always in flux, since I don’t know when Hubby is going to come home, and partly because I might not be in the mood for whatever I assigned. I love it when [...]

This past week I spent at a conference in New York. I didn’t cook anything, nor did I make much aside from a lot of conversation, a lot of noise at a live band karaoke, and two PowerPoint presentations. The week prior, however, I was up to my ass in creativity but I can’t show [...]

When we renovated our kitchen two years ago, we carved out part of the hill behind our house and added a terraced wall. We’re still trying to figure out the best way to fill it with plants, and this year, I am getting serious about it. Last spring and summer I traveled so much doing [...]

Back in July, Angie, Jane and I went to a restaurant in DC called Hook. Angie, damn her, introduced me to the lemon drop martini. I’m not a big martini drinker though I learned to make them when I was around 11 or 12, since both my grandmothers drank them. One liked them with vermouth [...]

My husband’s parents’ 40th wedding anniversary is this coming week, so Hubby and I decided to make a family dinner for them. We had them come to us because if we went there, my mother in law wouldn’t leave the kitchen. If they came to us, we’d cook and clean and she could play with [...]

Last week I mentioned one of my favorite cookbooks, “Saved By Soup,” which I keep for exactly one recipe: Red Bean and Barley Soup.
In addition, this recipe is the single reason I own a immersion blender. It’s kind of ridiculous, but I make this soup a LOT in the winter. It’s very easy, I can [...]

I have a ton of cookbooks. Literally dozens, some of which I keep for only one recipe. An entire kitchen cabinet in my home is full of nothing but cookbooks. At some point, it’ll be time for me to weed them out, scan the pages I use and donate the books themselves.
Because I’m feeling kinda [...]

This week, I’m busy, Hubby is super busy, and it’s cold. When I did our rough menu sketch (as opposed to the plan that Angie does) wherein I list the main dishes we have ingredients for, and the side dishes I have on hand, I found that I’m way into my winter side dish menus.
Most [...]

One of us whipper-outers is about to embark on mild kitchen rehab, and I thought this week I’d share some pics of the before and after of The Kitchen Reno That Never Ended. I didn’t do the work myself- we had a contractor who didn’t like to wear underwear. Please do not ask me how [...]

Every year, I make these cookies for Hubby. They’re labor-intensive and include putting the cookie dough in the fridge not once but twice, plus boiling water and grating ginger and whacking the crap out of some chocolate and yet they are so freaking good it’s worth it all. And he loves them. So some [...]