POD – Soup Weather

Tonight, I came home and made soup. It was brisk, autumn weather – and just screamed soup. This is the starts of the lentil soup. 1 onion, 3 carrots, 3 stalks of lettuce, 3 cloves of garlic, 3 fresh tomatoes chopped, fresh basil, fresh oregano, about 6 cups of water, 3 cups of dried lentils,…

Day 355 – Marshmallows

The girls and I made marshmallows today. I’ve wanted to make them for a while, so figured it would be a fun rainy day activity for them.  I saw this recipe, and decided I had to make them. I mean, an engineer re-wrote it to make it more fool proof.  What could go wrong? Right?…

ASM’s Annual Holiday Treat Exchange – Emmy’s Recipe

See the lovely Ms Another Suburban Mom for the whole list of people participating in the exchange. This year, I will be sharing my Grandma’s Famous Sugar Cookie Recipe.  We made thousands of these during the holiday season in our house.  I remember standing in my grandma’s kitchen with her making them and decorating them. …

ASM’s Annual Holiday Treat Exchange – Garbanzo’s Recipe

These are from the master of chocolate, Marcel Desaulniers.  They are the perfect dessert for any gathering or function.  These were served at Julia Child’s 80th birthday.  I once took them as a dessert for a friend’s wedding.  The key is to keep everything cold until just before serving. Lucy’s Chocolate Diamonds 1/2 lb Unsalted…

Salad Challenge Recipe: Corn Salad

If you read a few other blogs (and you probably do), you have noticed the great salad challenge has been brought up by several of us.  The gist, in case you missed it, is that we eat, for the next 90 days, a salad a day.   Salads include veggies – does not include things like…

Day 211 – Salads

If you follow the lovely and talented ASM‘s blog, you may have heard about the Salad Challenge going on with our weight loss suppor group.  For the next 90 days, many of us will attempt to eat a salad a day.  Garbanzo and I started on Friday night.  So far, I am 3/3, but then…

Friday Field Trips

I read a blog called The Park Bench.  The site is dedicated to “nerdy women”.  I consider myself a geek, not a nerd, but that can become a discussion of semantics. Through her Thursday Randomness post, I discovered the Dr Seuss Parody Page. She had posted a link to the Dr Seuss Meets Star Trek. If…

Day 120 – Quiche

While reading Another Suburban Mom’s post about Mother’s Day Gifts, I started thinking about quiche.  Let me explain how my brain got from one to the other; it isn’t as odd as it may seem at first.  My mother-in-law always makes quiche for brunches.  And, despite the fact it is Mother’s Day and isn’t supposed…

Soup Swap Day!

Today is National Soup Swap Day!  The idea of this day is to gather your friends around you and share soup with each other.  I will be doing that later today when we have some friends from college over for dinner.  While we all live in the same city, we don’t see each other enough. …

A Reminder & Honest Scrap

First the reminder – Saturday is the National Soup Swap.  I am asking for volunteers to have a virtual soup swap in blogsphere.  The idea is that on Saturday participants will post a soup recipe and an accompanying story, if you have one.  I have a  few people who have said they were participate.  Leave me a…