Published on
September 17, 2009 in
not food.
It always seems like I have a good month with multiple posts and then I have months like this one, where I’m just too busy to accomplish anything outside of what I’ve got going on in life. My in-laws have been visiting this past week and so do not doubt that I’ve been cooking (aiming to impress, you know) delicious food like braised short ribs and a lovely ham and a surprisingly good bourbon peach and raspberry pie, but I took no pictures and wrote no posts for it because I just haven’t had the time. Tomorrow marks another busy week and after that, I’ve got still more photo editing so I’m not sure where another recipe post will find its way to this website in September.
In other news, my oldest son, Grey, turned 3 on the 15th. They grow so fast, no matter how many times people tell you that while you’re pregnant you never really believe it until it starts happening right in front of your face. It seems like just yesterday he was a tiny little baby, and yet I look at him now and he’s practically a teenager. He started preschool on Monday, too, so it’s been a lot of fun around here with all the preparations.
I read a recipe this morning for a grape and pear pie, so once this place has been cleared of cake and cupcakes, I think I’ll make that and let you know how it goes.
Pardon the dust, it was time to find a look that was both pretty and functional, the functional part being sorely lacking from the previous design. It will no doubt continue to evolve before your very eyes as I spot things I missed and things I willfully ignored for the time being just for the sake of getting it out there.
Yes, that’s right, I launched a redesign before it was completely ready. Eat me, dev nerds!
So anyway, in the meantime I hope this makes for easier reading, with the added bonus of my random tweets, and if anyone knows how to replace the widget titles for K2 with images, feel free to let me know because I sure as hell am not finding it.
(that’s what she said)
So at this point, you may be thinking, “Alicia, what gives? It’s been more than a few weeks. It’s been a whole damn month since you last posted anything, and that post wasn’t even about food! Isn’t this supposed to be a food blog?”
The answer is yes, yes it is. I even have at least 5 recipes, complete with photos, to post. The problem has been finding the time to do the writeups. I don’t know how PW does it, with 4 kids, when I can’t do it with 2. Maybe it’s that my two are 2 and 3 months old, respectively. But during this month, I’ve had approximately three hours of free time each night and that’s if I go to bed at midnight, and I do have a husband I try to spend time with, so there’s a balance to find here and I haven’t found it yet.
Things are looking up, though! My youngest has discovered that the world will not come crashing down if he sleeps more than 3 hours at a time, so that bodes well. I managed to make a chocolate tart yesterday – possibly the world peace tart – and this weekend will feature two recipes to be posted on particular days of great secrecy, so that’s something too.
Meanwhile, have you browsed smittenkitchen lately? How about Crepes of Wrath? No? Don’t forget about The Noshery, where Meseidy is always cooking up something good. And check back here soon for more good eats at the hands of a complete amateur.
I apologize for my extended absence – I’m working on another project that is sucking away every moment of the little free time I’ve got. That’s not to say I haven’t been cooking, though. I’ve got 4 or 5 meals documented in pictures, it’s just that the pictures need to be processed and posts need to be written and I clearly need at least 10 more hours in each day. So, hopefully within the next week or two my project will be over and I can return to semi-regular posting of my kitchen adventures.
Pardon my extended absence, I was busy giving birth. Meet my newest future kitchen slave:
This is Ethan, and I am pretty much in love with him. Conveniently my other future kitchen slave, Greyson, is pretty much in love with him too.
This does not, however, lend itself to extended kitchen time so I missed my Daring Bakers post, and I had some pregnancy-related health issues that kept me from cooking much lately anyway.
I do have a strawberry meringue pie to share with you soon, and I think I’m going to start a once-a-week feature on making the most of quality prepackaged foods, like what we did with Zatarain’s red beans and rice tonight.
Til next time.
