recipes

Eating can be fun too

Making the mashed peas

The smorgasbord is presented

More pictures like these that remind us that eating isn't always dangerous can be found in our End of Summer album. Thanks everyone for your supportive comments on the allergy post. Viola is still doped on Benadryl, but we look forward to a return to normal in the next few days.

Cooking post-baby

While there have been a fair number of take out meals and quite a few (treasured) dinners prepared for us by friends and family, we have actually managed to maintain a certain amount of cooking in the post-baby era. We are still working our way through the half-o-lamb that we purchased from a local farm last year (unfortunately we are now without its piece de resistance, the rack, thanks to a certain robber; however, our insurance company reimbursed us generously for it).

Christmas food

We cut down on the amount of truffles we made this year for Christmas, but then we invented all sorts of other stuff to make.

The truffles are Bailey’s-flavored. Here they are with the dulce de leche candies that Joe invented. He started with this recipe (the cheater one that starts with condensed sweetened milk), and then rolled the caramel into balls and coated them in chocolate. Then he topped them with sea salt. I’ll admit I was skeptical, but they’re good - not chewy, and not hard candy, but somewhere in between.