Our second attempt at Chopped at home was almost a bit of a disaster. Gerrit went to the store to buy ingredients and came home with black beans and chorizo, and while I’m sure that I could have come up with something had I actually been in a competition, I had to remind him that…
Author: Erin
Last week was a week of small miracles in many ways. A couple of weeks ago, my mother lost the diamond out of her engagement ring. She and my dad searched their house inside and out. She revisited the stores she had run errands in that morning. She searched between the seats of her car….
I was thinking last night, as we stood on my parents’ back porch with friends and watched the sky change colors from the fireworks we couldn’t see because trees were in the way (we had apparently missed the show), about how our Fourth of July celebrations always seem memorable. There was the Fourth of July…
{More: January 2013 : February 2013 : March 2013 : April 2013} Favorite dish/meal: My favorite dish was perhaps the lamp chops we had the other night…we couldn’t even talk while we were eating them, and we sucked every bit of meat we could off of the bones. My favorite meal experience? The rehearsal dinner for my brother-in-law and his new wife….
Shanna Mallon’s blog, Food Loves Writing, is one of my favorites. She writes with such truth and always makes life into a beautiful story. I’m over there today as part of the Writers Chats series with a guest post about being a writer. I inherited much of my love of reading and writing from my…