Category Archives: Asides

Celebrating Fat Tuesday

I made two king cakes yesterday — I won’t share the recipe here because it was far too complicated involving folding and turning buttered yeast dough into flaky layers — but they came out pretty well, though slightly dry from overbaking. I put two plastic babies in so each of my girls could get one. […]

I’ll Cook Dinner If You Buy Groceries

This is the second incarnation of The Everyday Cafe. I kept a blog of the same name at Typepad for a year or so starting in 2004 (here’s a page from the Wayback Machine). Now I’m back at it.
I made a deal with my husband. He does the big grocery shopping trip each weekend and […]