Happy July. I’m guessing that you might want to be more off your computer than on these days, so I won’t keep you long. It’s summer around here, which means that everything changes and the house gets very messy. I’m down one kid at camp (the Unitarian anarchist sort), and I’ll have her back in…
mochi ice cream cake
Last week as I was making Rosie’s requested birthday dinner, I did the thing I often do: I made some very strange mistakes. At first, years back, it seemed like a fluke. Maybe I was tripling a recipe when I shouldn’t have, or (as usual), I was crushing under a time pressure. But at this point it’s…
an answer for emily
When I was setting off for book travels in October, I asked for any questions you might be bringing to events so I could think about them before we met. Emily, who was planning on coming to my event at Powell’s in Portland, responded with a question. She was a few hours away, and rain…
how to make just enough cake
At our house, cake season stretches from February through April, from Rosie’s birthday through Sadie’s (with Joey’s in between). It parallels dirty-piles-of-icy snow season, which is fortunate, because the cake helps. I’m not particularly good at making birthday cakes, but I love to do it anyway. I like frostings with not much sugar, so often…
homemade counter spray
From our very first meeting, Mrs. Meyers knew me for the sucker that I am. And she played me hard. It was years ago now. I was at the grocery store, in the cleaning products aisle. I don’t go down there much–just really to buy sponges and Bon Ami, but the new labels caught my eye….
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