Feb 25 2010
Sounds awful doesn’t it? Seafoam frosting? What the heck, I don’t think it is meant to look or taste like seafoam. Bad marketing, I guess. Because the reality of this frosting is that it is incredibly delicious and luxuriously creamy, but fat free. Compared to most frostings, this one is actually not completely horrible for [...]
Feb 23 2010
It is Tuesday morning, and I just finished baking the cake for S’s birthday dinner tonight. I made a new frosting and changed up my usual yellow cake recipe. I can’t wait to taste it all together. The frosting is…..mmmmmm. It is a “seafoam” frosting, which I decided to try because the regular 7-minute marshmallow [...]
Feb 18 2010
As a displaced New Yorker, I am typically disappointed in the bagel offerings of the SF Bay Area. But, I have never been a bagel lover anyway. They are a little too heavy for me (though I will admit to enjoying the occasional bagel hot out of the oven at the store). When I do [...]
Feb 18 2010
It has been a pretty strange week, dinner-wise. J is on vacation from school, while L does not have vacation. J stayed over at a friend’s house on Tuesday, and S went away for a couple of nights. S returns today to pick up J and take her on a little overnight excursion. So, most [...]
Feb 17 2010
A while ago, a friend of mine gave me a few recipes that she got from her Uncle Merv. One recipe was for chocolate cupcakes. My friend raved about these cupcakes and I was surprised to find, when I made them, that they were made with no eggs or milk – totally vegan. So incredibly [...]
Feb 05 2010
The raviolis that L and her friends made were very inspiring to me. I tried several years ago to make home made pasta. I bought a pasta machine -the old fashioned kind where you hand crank the dough through rollers until it is very thin. I bought a fairly inexpensive model, figuring that if I [...]
Feb 05 2010
L and 3 of her adorable friends made a plan at school during lunch one day last fall. They decided that they wanted to cook a gourmet meal for their parents and siblings. L was very excited about the prospect of this meal because she likes to cook and she likes to hang out with [...]
Feb 05 2010
Everyone thinks that California is warm, virtually always sunny, and that you barely need a sweater, much less a coat. Ever since I moved here in 1992, I’ve been cold. It is simply impossible to dress for the weather. At least in Chicago or New York, you know exactly what to wear in the winter [...]
