I killed the cockroach tonight.  It was standing on my washing machine, sniffing the side of a jar of apple cider, looking both innocent and prehistoric.  I tried to move slowly towards the rolling pin the dishdrainer, but it sensed my movement and started to run.  Lucky for me, it ran under a cookie sheet.  […]

I was tagged many moons ago to do a Christmas meme (okay, so it was actually only two weeks ago). Since I’m feeling particularly low on creative juices and I don’t feel like delving into the depths of my soul to talk about the unspecified anxiety I’ve been feeling over the last few days, […]

Tonight, while filming an episode of Fork You, a cockroach appeared on my kitchen counter. I was not pleased. Thad tried to kill it with a cutting board (which I would have never used for food again) but did not succeed before it disappeared behind the stove. With that exception, the filming […]

I woke up this morning to a lake of chicken fat a foot in diameter on my kitchen counter.  It spread underneath the microwave and dribbled down the sides of the crockpot from which it had originated.  Let this be a lesson to you.  Never overfill a crockpot when you make chicken broth from the […]

Standing in the parking garage this afternoon, waiting for my car to appear so I could get to class, I called my mom.  I frequently call her when I’m either in transit, or about to be moving from one place to another.  She answered the phone, and I could tell immediately that there was something […]

The demands on my time these days are pretty heavy (although I don’t know a single person out there who can’t claim this same sentence as their own).  The end of the semester is looming (I just paused in the writing of this blog entry in order to make out a nice, neat to-do list, […]

The next installment of Fork You is up. It’s just a short and sweet little Quick Fork, about how to make an easy cookie or cupcake frosting. The recipe is simple, just 2 cups of powdered sugar, 2 1/2 tablespoons of milk, 4 tablespoons of softened butter and a single teaspoon of vanilla. […]

I grew up with the edition of the Joy of Cooking that was bound in turquoise fabric and was first released sometime in the early 1960’s.  It was a staple reference tome in my house, especially in the years before the internet made it easy to find 12 different recipes for the same cake in […]

There was much running around, cooking and baking done today, for the super-secret next edition of Fork You. Okay, I guess it isn’t so super-secret. We made cookies. Holiday cookies in fact. But there are still many reasons to watch, like that moment when Scott stuck a cookie to his forehead […]