Tag: Kitchen

  • Simple Quilted Coasters

    Lately I have been awful about working on projects. I started a jacket a month ago. It has been sitting on our dining room table in a stack of pieces all that time. I’ll put  a sleeve on, and then take a sleeve off. I’ll top-stitch a hem, and then rip it all out. It’s…

  • Toaster Oven Magic

    In the midst of our Sunday baking yesterday I turned to fill the preheated oven with a pan full of little breakfast kolaches. Sitting in their glass pan perfectly rounded and puffed beautifully, I was so eager to smell the scent of baking dough fill our house. Sadly, when I opened the oven door no…

  • New Year

    I’m not really one for resolutions, but I do love new beginnings. Whether the beginning of the day, the workweek, the weekend or the beginning of the year, I find myself making lists and preparing for what is ahead. This weekend I found myself not only preparing to head back to work after a two-week…

  • Macarons

    Upon the suggestion of my good friends Patti and Maryann, I decided to give macarons (or French Macaroons) a go. I’m glad I did. All the research I did on them before setting out to actually make them made me nervous, like I was going to have to watch 8 batches fall before I was…

  • Pickles!

    There is something about Ball jars that I love. I would happily store all our foodstuffs in them just because I find them lovely. I will look for any occasion to use one and am definitely the girl at work who drinks her water during staff meeting from a Ball jar. There is no shortage…

  • The Sweet Life

    It’s not the taste of sweets so much that I adore, it’s really their beauty that makes me drool. I’ve been sneaking peeks at too many baking blogs lately — you know, the ones that highlight a treat a day with photographs of pastries stacked on glass plates, cookies sitting next to cool glasses of…

  • Pancetta Pizza

    We’ve gone a month without air conditioning … in 90 degree weather. We survived, of course, but it wasn’t much fun. Mostly because I couldn’t use the oven. After finally tracking down the part for our 40-year-old air conditioner (Antique Roadshow, here we come!), we got it fixed today. Hurrah. In honor of our cool…

  • Market Harvest

    Champaign, Illinois and Park City, Utah have amazing farmers markets and we’ve wanted to find something on a similar scale in Indianapolis, but have had no luck until this morning. The Indy Winter Farmers Market in the Chatham Arch Building at East and 9th is pretty fantastic. I mean, really fantastic. Our spoils include a…

  • Long Weekend

    As a reward for all the long hours worked over the past few weeks, management gave staff a four day weekend. Regan took these days off with me and together we had a bang-up time. We decided to throw a Halloween party. We don’t often throw parties because each time we have people over I…

  • A Bit on Bread and Other Things

    In first grade we had to submit our favorite recipe to be included in the classroom cookbook as a gift for Mother’s Day. I submitted Challah Bread and for the next 18 years the only bread I made was Challah. It has always been my mom’s go-to bread for holidays. It has been mine for…