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Birthday Breakfast
Sometimes when I’m trying not to panic, I oversimplify my duties. We are taking M and a friend to the New England Aquarium for his birthday next week, when the library pass is available, so I forgot...
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Random Notes on my Radio Silence
I’m editing 3 new patterns – 2 knit, 1 crochet. We’ve had several birthdays but we shared cakes, so the baking was not overwhelming,and they were gluten free. We sang to Dan on Sunday and he shared...
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Daddy’s Sunday Walks with K {p,f,h,r}
Dan took K for a walk in Grandma’s woods on Sunday to see if the salamanders were up yet. I was glad we got a little more wear from her pretty pink dress, it used to be long on her. I love looking at...
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I can take K shopping – wow.
Apparently I haven’t taken M and K to the Mansfield Country Store ever – because Ben started getting nostalgic for a store with candy, nicklodians, and pretty things were we’d bought presents for his...
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GF Hamburger buns that my kids wanted thirds of
Last week I was preparing groceries, when Ben asked, “Please, no curry this week, we eat it for 3 lunches before it’s gone!” Actually, that’s one thing I like about curry – three lunches. Because gf...
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Blueberry Pie
It was plenty hot Saturday morning, so we put on our hats, got up early-ish (for a Saturday) and drove to Dufort Farms to pick 14 lbs of blueberries. I’d never seen an egg case (or whatever you call...
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Double Contraband
M is visiting his grandparents – they gave him a vegan dinner with wheat noodles – with gluten. He has yet to decide if the museum in NYC with the gems and dinosaur bones is cooler than the aircraft...
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Growing out of Picky Eating…a little bit
K discovered that she likes clementines after all – enough to borrow the camera and photograph one slice on her hand. The other day when we walked to the library, she’d warmed up in the sun; so...
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Dinner – drudgery or (oh for a word that means opportunity that starts with a d)
I saw a Christianity Today article responding to a Slate article about the drudgery of dinner. And yeah, as a lady who has to cook from scratch because of celiac there are times I crave a good short...
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{p,f,h,r} Visiting Relatives
Pretty My new cousin Denise, and the cake Liz from church made them.Mom and Aunt Jody organized a big picnic so the folks (like us) who didn’t make it to the wedding in Brazil could celebrate Ben and...
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{p,f,h,r} August was a blur
Between Ben’s trip to visit Uncle Warren in Kentucky, the Family Fun Fair at church, recruiting families for M’s F.I.R.S.T. Lego League team, the car needing a new catalytic converter (Dan may have...
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Butternut Squash and Great Fruit for Breakfast {p,f,h,r}
Pretty We’ve been spending Thursday afternoons at Capron Park, not so much on the monkey bars or zoo (our membership ran out) but making up hide and seek games in the oak trees, climbing around the...
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Farewell Tea Party
The Princess pours tea The Minister of the Exchecker looks toward the camera The Princess adds milk to his Rooibos close up of the tea, doughnuts, and carefully saved gluten free cookies (Chris hid...
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Gettysburg and pho
K, Me and nieces drawing I’m getting used to being at home again. My calendar is a week off in its crossed off boxes, I didn’t teach in Sunday school, just assisted my Mom, and she cooked Sunday...
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{p,f,h,r} September, maybe some of August?
Pretty: button brush (I think) Unidentified green berries with pretty red stem On our Suburban Nomad Day, when I have the car and we do all the errands and outside classes, K found a beautiful fennel....
View ArticleWhich gf “malt” ball?
The one based on meringue. Definitely that one. Didn’t taste exactly like a malt ball (as far as I can remember) but it did have the milk flavor, which turns out to be important. Today I’m making the...
View ArticleHow to have a person with Celiac Disease over for dinner.
Some Notes: Cross contamination does not only mean raw chicken on a cutting board. In this case it means gluten getting into things that used to be gluten free. If a piece of bread is held over a...
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