Smashed Potatoes and Decadent Hot Chocolate
On the surface of things, Smashed Potatoes and Decadent Hot Chocolate don't seem to have much in common. But if you delve a little deeper, you'll find the connection. Both mashed potatoes and hot chocolate can be made via the instant, just-add-water type. Which...
Reds to Warm You
In these days of high unemployment and global financial crisis, it’s nice to relax with a bottle of wine that doesn’t break your pocketbook. I’m here to sort out the memorable from the truly awful, and each bottle is under $10 unless noted otherwise. In the...
Healed Leg Bones, Jane Fonda, and Thanksgiving Leftovers
Yay! The bone doc showed me the white line across my fibula - the bone is healed! So after a five month relationship, I've said my goodbyes to the ortho office, and hello to my new best friend, Jane Fonda. Some of us remember the 1980s, when she spearheaded the...
BLACK FRIDAY GIVEAWAY
Hey everyone! Black Friday should be about more than just spending money so retailers end the year "in the black". Let's call it "Support Your Local Author" day! ("Local" being nebulous on the interwebs.) Or even, "Read A Book, Love An Author" day! I'm...
Holiday Hassles? Or…
It's begun. The rush to the holiday season is upon us. Madness in the form of turkey recipes, shopping lines, or the perfect gift for the frenemy in the office is descending upon everyone who has enough money in their pockets to be concerned about such things....
Mulled Wine – In Time for the Holidays
A couple weekends ago, Hubby texted me from his movie shoot. "I'm freezing. It's been sleeting/snowing/raining/snowing/hailing/snowing and I've been outside all day...I'll be home in an hour, give me something HOT and ALCOHOLIC to drink." I had a couple open...
Two Rich Reds…
In these days of high unemployment and global financial crisis, it’s nice to relax with a bottle of wine that doesn’t break your pocketbook. I’m here to sort out the memorable from the truly awful, and each bottle is under $10 unless otherwise noted. I've got two...
Time Change
I will not lie. I LOVE the time changes. I hope the government never gets rid of "Spring ahead, fall back". There is something so urgent and hopeful about spring, moving the clock ahead, seeing daylight after getting home from the day job. Having the soft spring...
Primitivo – in Wine and Life
While I was at Cypher a couple of weekends ago, the sexy ex-computer-geek-turned-tasting-room-guru T, let me in on the secret of Primitivo. Primitivo is a grape identical to Zinfandel and grown mostly in Italy, Argentina, and Chile. Bells went off in my head. No...
The NaNoWriMo Pressure is ON
I can't do NaNoWriMo this year. That's National Novel Writing Month, for the unenlightened. It's not that I don't want to, because I do. But I'm on deadline (one I've made for myself) and I am still getting used to writing around a full time job. Every writer's...