Ash has become quite the Ninja Shopper, moving silently and stealthy around the other shoppers, nabbing items from shelves and willing them into our shopping cart.
Read MoreThe Girl walked into the kitchen, "Whatcha makin'?"
"Enchiladas. You might like them. Although, I don't know what you like anymore...or ever, " I said.
Monkey Boy bounded downstairs and said, "Can I have another thing to eat?"
Read MoreI am not much of a food blogger. Don’t get me wrong, I love reading food blogs and discovering new recipes. I simply lack sufficient time in my schedule to fully document and photograph my every meal.
Read MoreWe harvested and dried some of our garden peppers, the really hot ones, the hotter-than-hell-fire peppers. Then B put them into the spice grinder and made a powder, seeds and all.
Read MoreB was standing in the kitchen with a large red apple in his hand. He smiled, winked at me, and began to twist the stem, “A…B…C…D…
Read MoreEarly this morning, Ren crawled in bed with me, not something he does every night...anymore. I looked at the clock and thought of early Thanksgiving mornings a few decades ago years ago when my mother was already out of bed to get the turkey in the oven. By the time the rest of the family woke a couple hours later, the house would be filled with the aroma of roasting turkey. And just a few more hours after that, around the formal dining table set with my mother’s finest china and silver, we would all take turns stating what we were most thankful for. Then we would dive into a very traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
Read MoreWe all saw it, but Ren saw it first. He stood on his chair in the restaurant and pointed, “Mommy look.” When I first saw it, I smiled, but then I realized that this could mean trouble. I looked across the table at Brently and nodded to the young couple a few tables away from us. That’s when he turned around and saw it, too.
“Someone really should say something to them,” he announced.
On the way home from a really busy morning, I broke all our well-established and fully-embraced food rules. I stopped at a Taco Bell and ordered two Frito Burritos for Ren. Yes, Frito Burritos, filled with seasoned ground beef, cilantro rice, warm nacho cheese sauce, and original Fritos corn chips, wrapped up in a warm flour tortilla. There is nothing natural or organic about it.
Read MoreIt was supposed to be the storm of the year, a blizzard of epic proportions—18” of snow starting early Monday morning and lasting through Tuesday afternoon—added to the already 8” of snow we got the day before. We thought we would be snowed in through Wednesday. I had just gone grocery shopping on Friday, but with the impending storm, I wanted to make sure I had those last couple items I forgot, like dishwasher soap and spring roll wrappers—you never know when cabin fever will produce a Chinese food craving.
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