I’ve decided that my favorite kinds of recipes to bring into my kitchen are the recipes that other people have already made and I have eaten and loved so much that I have to make it myself. That’s how I got the recipe for the butternut squash and sausage pasta. And that’s how I got…
Category: cakes
Since I wrote so many weeks ago about what was going to be my attempt to stay calm during the Christmas season, I felt like I should come back with some kind of update on how I’m doing. In a phrase: not super well. Things have felt so busy, and while I vowed not to…
I made my mother a birthday cake on Friday night while Gerrit and I were keeping an eye on the news about the Paris attacks. I wish I had more to say about all of that, but I can’t seem to find my thoughts on it. I’m not sure why I can’t: sometimes I think…
After the week we had last week, I was feeling pretty depleted on Friday. While Evelyn has learned how to walk, she has apparently forgotten how to nap, and so she and I had a week of lots of crying and stress and frustration. Needless to say, I was ready for a weekend in which…
Two weekends ago I had the best weekend. I went to spend the night with my mom because my dad was out of town, which is like a mini vacation that I definitely don’t take often enough. We went shopping for baby clothes and spent Saturday morning talking on the back porch and then browsing…