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March 2014

March 28, 2014

And So The Long Day Wore On

I woke up during the night to the sound of rain and a child crying...

March 06, 2014

Lent and Bread and Syrup

So here we are, in my favoritest season of all time. I know I've been...

February 2014

February 22, 2014

Wordy Wednesday

I like to think of myself as a reasonably good cook but lately, maybe because...

February 05, 2014

wordy wednesday: peanut sauce

It's snowing. To put it mildly.All the children are stuffed up and whiny and suffering...

January 2014

January 29, 2014

Wordy Wednesday: a scene of domesticity and comfort

Finally cleaned out the fridge on Monday, after needing to do it for like a...

January 15, 2014

spoiling children

Matt roasted a chicken on Sunday and, wonderfully, the children only ate half of it...

December 2013

December 06, 2013

st. nicholas and other matters

As I lie here, nursing a foul headache and a throbbing thumb, I can hear...

November 2013

November 21, 2013

{phfr}:blogging when i should be doing something else edition

{pretty}Look how beautiful my house at home in Africa is right now! Miss it lots....

November 05, 2013

beef wellington and the terrible prospect of the fatness ahead

Matt made Beef Wellington on Sunday.For Reformation Day, he said. The English Reformation, he said.With...

September 2013

September 05, 2013

{phfr}: devastating reality edition

I had this post up all yesterday as I wandered around the day trying to...

September 02, 2013

curried birthday meat pies

Begin with a flakey and gorgeous pie dough.2 1/2 cups flourPinch Salt mixed thoroughly into...

June 2013

June 07, 2013

don’t ask me for food

I have been in bed for two days. Well, not really in bed, more languishing...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

the laundry: that great dark cloud of despair

I really ought to be downstairs doing laundry...I feel like that line should be set...

May 25, 2013

sublime

Rhubarb Mango CrumbleI made some rhubarb strawberry sauce, but more almost jam.Just cooked down all...

May 01, 2013

{phfr}:gasp

In a last ditch effort to save my children from the "indifferent" education I've always...

April 2013

April 22, 2013

weekend haze

Yesterday was the Queen's birthday so Elphine made an Italian Apple Cake again. She had...

April 03, 2013

he lives, we seem to still be living

It is April, as some of you might have noticed, and I am sitting in...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

early adventures in sourdough

Being rather a creature of habit it takes an act of God, or the valiant...

November 2012

November 05, 2012

election eating

For Breakfast: Cinnamon Rolls that feel healthy because of being whole wheat but not really...

October 2012

October 01, 2012

les crepes

Matt needs to buy me a new crepe pan, but in the meantime, I'm making...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

pie or cobbler or whatever

I started out thinking I'd make apple dumplings but as I went on I got...

September 18, 2012

goodnight all

And so we come to the end of another extremely long day. While the children...

September 15, 2012

when’s the eating

I'd been really wanting to cook a lot of little things from a Spanish Tapas...

August 2012

August 10, 2012

7 quick takes

oneIt is gray and pouring rain. It feels like we're about to have winter already....

August 04, 2012

on a saturday evening

Lately we've been exclusively eating frittata on Saturday evenings.Eighteen or so eggs, a dollop of...

June 2012

June 18, 2012

hee hee

David Mitchell is doing soap boxes again! And since practically everybody at Good Shepherd stood...

June 12, 2012

cook with your children, the experts say

Elphine is making brownies. She's been making them since about 1pm this afternoon. I've been...

April 2012

April 16, 2012

little meat pies

But first, here are my tulips blooming.And a remaining daffodil. So, Little Meat Pies.The dough...

January 2012

January 09, 2012

now that christmas is over

It seems time finally to post some gratuitous baby/children pictures from the last few weeks....

September 2011

September 12, 2011

Roast Chicken, Candy, other stuff

Various teams of Good Shepherdians are out mucking out peoples houses this afternoon. Actually, they've...