I recently fell in love with sweet potatoes. I wrote about it in 2009. Incidentally, Dave had a similar epiphany in 1997 with onions. He went from hating them to loving them. I tolerate them, but certainly don’t love them. He doesn’t love sweet potatoes, so I guess we’re even. Anyway, since there’s no point … Read more
It’s been hard this year. The media has been inundating us with holiday-related retail commercials and the radio stations are already playing Christmas music. I guess it started the same week as Halloween, which seemed pretty crazy to me. Has it always been this early? Don’t get me wrong…my family and I LOVE Christmas, we … Read more
There are so many skills to be learned when cooking: math, nutrition, chemistry, physics! Dave Update: We had a rough couple of days. Incidentally, we had read another Axia-LIF patient’s online blog/diary/series of forum posts that read rather similarly. At about the one-week point, the patient was feeling better, he thought he could move around … Read more
Dave Update: Yesterday Dave got the 5 little staples out of his back. That helped him to lie on his back more easily. On the way home from the doctor’s appointment, he made a brief visit to the squadron to say hello. I promise, he didn’t do any work! He only logged on to his … Read more
This past weekend our family headed to the Spanish Trail Scout Reservation near Defuniak Springs and had a weekend campout. The scout council here calls it “Cub Scout Family Camp” and it’s a great weekend. Three weekends in October were made available expressly for Cub Scout-friendly activities. Any Cub Scout families could register for any … Read more
The box on the right was purchased in mid-July. I thought I needed two boxes of cake mix for something, but I only needed one. The box on the left was purchased this morning. Darned straight I took the box tops! But note the size difference….did someone think we wouldn’t notice??? I’m baking Jacob’s birthday … Read more
I’m doing this for a contest at the Crock Pot Recipe Exchange blog. It’s simple, but it’s sorta difficult to remember to set up breakfast the evening before. “Real” oatmeal is heaven if you prepare it correctly. If you’re unfamiliar with the different “cuts” of oatmeal, here’s a nice primer for you. My kids are … Read more
I had some ground pork in the freezer. I had picked it up to make some meat loaf, but then I found The Country Cook’s recipe which ended up not needing the pork after all (Tangent: want to make a small meatloaf with just 1 pound of ground meat? Brandie’s recipe is very very nice!) … Read more
We took a long weekend and headed up to Atlanta. It’s about a 5.5 hour drive with no stops, plus we have a time zone change. We had nice seats at a Sunday afternoon Atlanta Braves game, and we booked a hotel room at a Comfort Inn right next to Turner Field, so we didn’t … Read more
Dave enjoys cooking. It’s an occasional indulgence for him — he has a suite of yummy recipes that he likes to call his own. Sadly, he doesn’t cook as much as he says he’d like to, since on on most weekdays he’s coming in from work while I’ve been working on dinner for some time. … Read more