My hair iced up on my five-block walk to work yesterday and my contact lens fluttered one blink away from freezing to my eyeball. We're veterans of Wisconsin's January chill, but even we had to pause a minute last night (in front of our open oven door) to thaw out. Safely home from work and [...]
Tag: dinner
Pork Roast with Repurposed Pumpkin Bar Stuffing
"In life, as in pumpkin bars, it's a-okay to admit failure, regroup, and press onward toward even more deliciousness." ~ Laura Biskupic, 2012. In an effort to consolidate baking requests on a busy week night, Molly doubled a dubious pumpkin bar recipe and ended up with a bumper crop of beautiful chocolate chip pumpkin bars [...]
To Kill a Mocking Chicken
Molly and I like to think we’re living with our very own Atticus Finch. And, though our comparison of him to a character once named the greatest hero in American Film mortifies my husband, Vince agrees that he resembles Harper Lee's legendary lawyer in one way: the manner in which he is sometimes paid. A few [...]
Holy Guacamole — tasty tacos for two
Due to a series of unfortunate circumstances, Molly and I whipped up a delicious Mexican fiesta and discovered too late that we were the only two available to eat it. Holy guacamole, though, it was tasty! Molly launched the preparations by making Salsa Fresca, in which she used some of the vegetables we had been [...]