I am Laura. Laura I am. I do not like an egg with ham. I do not like them poached or fried. I do not them sunny side. Not scrambled hard, or boiled soft. Not eaten cold or held aloft. Not dressed with onions, salt or cheese, not even with a pretty please. I would not, could [...]
Tag: food blogging
Ego check? Piece of cake
“Her picture’s in the papers now, and life’s a piece of cake.” - Ogden Nash, 1936 Oh really, Mr. Nash? A piece of cake? Such condescension rolls naturally from a man who probably never tried to make a homemade-strawberry-Belle-from-Beauty-and-the-Beast cake. I did and, though the incident happened a full 60 hours ago, I still feel like [...]
Some enchanted evenings warm the heart
It began with a small swatch of color -- a bright cotton dress peeking out from a thick wool coat. Slowly the colors spread into the music, the food and the faces of the people attending mass at our small Catholic church in Appleton, Wisconsin. A ubiquitous luster, especially vivid during these frozen February days, [...]
The Souper Women’s guide to combating an uncommon cold
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 [...]