spoon fed

I will not bore or horrify you with further scenes from the front.  No blow-by-blow on the ewe with the prolapse and the vet’s MacGyver-esque repair thereof ( let’s just say he put the “butt” back in buttons), no cataloging of the rest of the week’s adventures with intramural swapping of head cold and [...]

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February 22nd, 2013 | Category: comfort food, pudding, sheep, sly and foxy ways to make dessert good for your body as well as your soul, what we want when we feel mopey is something from a spoon | 3 comments

treaty

Judging by the tire tracks on my get-up-and-go and the fact that 66% of my children are back to school, I think the holidays are over.

That was some ride.

Eight years ago, I took that ride enormously pregnant, and at the end of the holidaze, had a large baby boy to show for [...]

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January 7th, 2013 | Category: baking, birthdays, dessert, gluten free, not falling for that old trick again, sly and foxy ways to make dessert good for your body as well as your soul | 2 comments

nut job

I set out to make the weekly snacking bar, my usual Sunday activity, but my mind wandered as I both eyeballed the proportions and switched up the ingredients.  They looked really mushy even after they were baked, so I taught them a lesson or two by baking them some more, until they really quit [...]

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December 19th, 2012 | Category: almonds, baking, cookies, failure, flax, gluten free, lunchbox, oatmeal, sly and foxy ways to make dessert good for your body as well as your soul, snacks, what you can and cannot predict | 2 comments
 
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