Chloe’s birthday was earlier this month. The cookbook Baked: New Frontiers in Baking by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito was hanging around on loan from Sharon and after thumbing through it, Chloe decided to try the Root Beer Bundt Cake for her cake. Report: E said, “OMG, the frosting is not only good, it’s stick [...]
It’s terrific. I love it. I’m so grateful! Before… After! More photos of the kitchen renovation are in my Facebook Album. Annie Yippee! Email this • Share on Facebook • Twitter • Digg This! • Save to del.icio.us • Stumble It!
This sweater is for Chloe’s birthday, so I’m trusting you all to not tell her about it. I just know she’s going to love it and I really couldn’t wait to share it with someone. Several years ago I began collecting wool sweaters from Salvation Army and garage sales hoping to make a felted wool [...]
Every home improvement project has a story, some are just large than others. Ours starts with a cook (cooking professionally for 25 years) who has been working on a free, hand-me-down stove for 12 years. Granted, it was passed on from our good friends who own Cafe Miranda’s. But still. Before that it was an [...]
I love how cookbooks, unlike other books, get written in. It somehow always felt a little naughty to use even a highlighter in my college textbooks, as I’d always been taught to take care of my possessions and definitely not mark up my books. But cookbooks are a different story. They are only enhanced and [...]
On our weekend in Boston, I discovered the bookshelves of Emily, friend and author of Too Many Cooks: Kitchen Adventures with 1 Mom, 4 Kids, 102 New Recipes ~ A Memoir of Tasting, Testing, and Discovery in the Kitchen. She was kind enough to humor me when one book turned to a few and then [...]
The urge for organization and simplification usually comes in January, but we got the bug early. For at least two years, the discussions around the At Home, At Sea website (for my cookbook At Home, At Sea: Recipes from the Maine Windjammer J. & E. Riggin) have gone round and round. Mostly focusing on how [...]
When people find out that we live, the four of us, in a room smaller than some people’s closets all summer long, one of the first questions they ask is about the girls. What do they do on the boat all summer long? No tv. Very little space for toys. Here are a few of [...]
Yesterday, just to prove to Rebecca, our very organized onsite gardener of Gabriella’s Gardens, that I could do it, I filed last year’s seeds. Not alphabetically as she was hinting I should, but by category – greens, heat loving plants like tomatoes, sprawlers like cucs and squash, flowers, herbs and lastly, bushy things. You know, [...]
When I first went to college, I was sure that I wanted to be a veterinarian. While I’m a far cry from that now as a chef and owner of a Maine windjammer, I’m inching in that direction again by having chickens and a cat and dreaming about my own horses, goats and pigs. We’ve [...]
