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This post was written by Sarah of SmartBitches. It’s Hanukkah, the Festival of Light, and Fried Foods. No, really. One of the ways in which Jewish folks commemorate Hanukkah is to eat foods fried in oil, like sufganiyot (jelly-filled donuts) and latkes (potato pancakes). Only one problem with that for me: I really, really don’t [...]

Because I’m finding it very difficult to come up with original content for this blog, in addition to the other two blogs, I’m going to put a sticky at the top for now, letting anyone who ventures over here know where they can find me when it seems I’m not blogging at all. I’m hoping [...]

Last week’s menu was a bit of a bust for me. I didn’t get to make butter chicken, I decided to put it off until I had all of the spices I need. They’re on their way from Penzeys, which I just discovered last week thanks to Anne Douglas (I don’t actually know if I [...]

Okay, so there’s only two photos up on the new Tasty Kitchen blog, but I’m seriously jealous of the mad food photography skillz going on there. How beautiful is this candy cane picture? I’m starting to think that blogging without pictures is looking really good, when we compare what my food photos look like next [...]

I’ve been using this cookbook, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, for about a year now, and I like the basic Boule recipe for both bread and rolls. But there are times when I wished the book had and did two things. One, I wish there was an index at the back that directed [...]

This post was written by Sarah of SmartBitches. Lately on Saturdays I’ve been trying to make one massive recipe in the slow cooker so that (a) we have awesome smells in the house all day and (b) we have leftovers for meals during the week. This week, I’m trying a free recipe from Cooks Illustrated [...]

It’s a long story, but last night our babysitter (a very nice older lady) ended up hanging out at our house for about an hour after we got home, and I gave her control of the remote. She switched it to Debbie Macomber’s Mrs. Miracle, but the movie had already been on for an hour [...]

Coming off a couple days of traveling and two Christmas parties, it’s hard to get back into my home routine, including menu planning. Normally I have my menu planned by now, so I’m actually going to use this post to do it. However, I do have one thing I know I want to make. Last [...]

On Thursdays, we would very much like to feature guest content. If you are a great knitter, crocheter, sewer, crafter, scrapbooker, cook or baker (or have some other artsy/homey talent) and would like to guest post for us on one (or more than one) Thursday, contact us! Since we don’t seem to have a contact [...]

I know this post isn’t very timely, since most of us are probably done with the turkey for the next few weeks, until Christmas rolls around, but it was my first opportunity to take pictures of something I’d made, for the blog. I think, if anything is clear, I need to do some reading up [...]