Tag Archives: summer This weekend I attended a great party/bash/baby shower at the home of old friends. Their daughter is expecting her first child, and this family knows how to party! The house is on the New York side of the Berkshires, and sits above a brook. It’s a beautiful spot, made ever more beautiful by my friends […]  I spent most of Saturday slaving over a hot stove, and much of Saturday evening cleaning up from the mess I made after a day of canning. Based on the state of my kitchen you might think I made about twenty things when in fact I made two. I made a batch of the tomato jam I […]  I am a little ashamed and need to unburden myself; I bought caponata, in a jar. I can make it, I have made it, in fact I’ve posted a recipe for it on this blog; a slow cooker caponata. Writing a food blog comes with a certain amount of pressure (albeit internal) to make things rather than buy […]  We reached the end of the road Sunday. I made the long drive from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia alone, after putting Rachel on a plane bound for Mississippi. It was a beautiful day for a drive, but I was pretty tired. There was a wedding (or three) at our hotel and our room was a little […]  Road trip day two (Wednesday) began with one of us (no names) sleeping until almost 9:30 while the other one got up, took a shower and went to the breakfast room and worked for two hours. The Holiday Inn Express where we stayed offered a fairly extensive breakfast, but the star of the morning show […] |
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