Son staring at his toast in the toaster: A watched toaster never pops.” Then he posed Is the phrase ‘a watched pot never boils’ a kitchen myth or life advice?” Me: Yes. He liked that. I had to look up that origin. This is one of the proverbs ascribed to Poor Richard, which was the […]
I was reading the newspaper headline from the food section, something about pumpkin spice. Daughter: Pumpkin spice is bacon for girls. After I laughed, I asked where she had heard that and she said it was on Tumblr. It’s the idea that men put bacon on everything & call it cuisine but girls can’t like
I didn’t know what a persimmon was while growing up. I remember hearing the word and may have glimpsed one once but it didn’t leave a lasting impression. It had a neutral to negative connotation perhaps just from the lack of knowledge and reference point. After I married, DH brought some persimmons home from a
Son asked me for some advice: I went to make nachos but there was only good cheese in the refrigerator. I felt bad that I was using expensive cheese for my nachos. What should I use instead?” I answered: Life is too short not to have good cheese.” Five days later, Daughter is standing in
Being a child of the 70’s and raised on Saturday morning cartoons as truth, I loved sugar cereal. I have no idea why my mother was indulgent in this charade of morning nutrition, but I thank her for it. Yes there was an occasional raisin bran, cheerio (pre-honey nut variety), or shredded wheat in the
