Not a legend but the name was fun. This is just the random stuff I've thought about and want to remember. If you find it useful, hurray! If not, you'll know me better anyway.
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Experimenting with freezer prep
So, just me again sharing my adventures in quarantine. My daughter is moving out in a few weeks, leaving me an empty nester. I really don’t enjoy cooking for one, and I’ve learned even with Mary here that even cooking for two sometimes feels like too much bother. So, I’m trying freezer meals. Today, it’s […]
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Science Craft: Cell o' Jell-O
My girl came home last night with an assignment to make some kind of model of a cell and its organelles. And we decided to make it out of homemade Jell-o Gummies. The results were not quite as spectacular as we’d hoped, but it’s still kind of cool, the project was LOTS of fun, and […]
MoreSimple Bean Soup
“What’s in the beans tonight, mom?” “Oh… a little bit of this and that.” “Yes! I LOVE that flavor!” — At OpenWest, my friend Joseph Hall has talked about Computational Gastronomy and Cooking Like an Engineer. I don’t cook like an engineer, ever. If anything, I cook like an abstract expressionist. My daughter recently listed […]
MoreEating Our Veggies
The kids and I are resolving to go back to eating more fruits and veggies. We’ve done this before, so I’m just writing a few notes for things that helped us make it work before, and will hopefully help us make it work again: 1) Make veggies the main dish rather than an afterthought. We […]
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