Epic baking fails and how to avoid them
No one likes sad bread, right? A couple weeks ago I was reading a back issue of Cooking Light where the editors …
Expectation violation: Movies and mushroom meatloaf
While many of my friends and fam sneaked off to see the new Harry Potter in November, I dutifully attended my studies. …
Pineapple Banana Bread (aka why I squirrel away frozen bananas all year)
By November, you must open our freezer carefully lest the flying bananas injure you. I collect ripe bananas all year long in …
Sandi’s Pumpkin Pear Bread
When I lived in Ukiah, one of my favorite things about the holidays was sampling Sandi Ledford’s pumpkin pear bread. I think …
The best spaghetti sauce in the west… MINE.
I grew up with the succulent scent of homemade spaghetti sauce filling the air. I’m talking all-day on-the-stove torment pushing the bounds …
Thursday 13: December Snapshot
With two days till Christmas, I’m taking a break from bread-baking and present-wrapping to pen this Thursday 13. I give you a …
North Highlands out-wham’s Wham, Christmas-style!
As my sister noted when she posted this video on Facebook a couple days ago, our parents made us complete Christmas dorks. …
Thursday 13: Holiday happenings
This will be me soon. Drool and all, I swear. (Credit) Today I write to you a free woman. For a few …
Buy an original ‘Emily’ and an angel gets her wings, er, pointe shoes
Original painting by Emily Tan My lovely niece Pasta Brains, I mean Emily, is ridiculously talented. She paints. She dances. She takes …
Thursday 13: The Life List, Part II
Photo Credit I’m on the airplane last night, somewhere over the Sierras and it occurred to me: I did not do my …