So I am taking a break. Not a long one, but a break. I realized today that when I had read about my fiftieth cheesecake post that I never wanted to see a cheesecake again that something was wrong. I love cheesecake. I just am burned out. I mean I only posted once last week. That normally makes me panic. Instead I just shrugged my shoulders. Not a good sign. So before I quit blogging all together I think I will take a little time off (knowing me, probably just a week). That includes coming around to your blog. My Google Reader burst through the seams everyday with over 300 posts it seems and I just can't find the time to read, let alone respond. I'll be back, with this Turtle Brownie Mousse Bite recipe one of these days. All the best, Peabody … [Read more...]
Now that’s something you don’t hear everyday…
My very first teaching job, I had a principal who liked me. Really, really liked me. Even though I was a first year teacher she would often send visitors into my classroom, to “represent” our school. My kids had been working on a research project and one of my super nerdy kids (J)was doing Mount Kilimanjaro. This was long before the days of the Internet were available to the kids and they were forced to use things like books (gasp) and magazine (the horror) to research their topic. At the time of the project I was a subscriber and avid reader of Outside magazine. I was dating a very outdoorsy kind of guy at the time. If you have never read it before, it is actually quite interesting, but every now and then, in the back they have what one might call a quirky tidbits and quips. But I thought nothing about it. I gave a copy of the magazine to J since it had a spread on Mt. Kilimanjaro. Again, thought nothing of it. When the guest from New Zealand came through I was … [Read more...]
Brunch…
When people find out that you run a food blog, they often ask me who my favorite chef on Food Network is. I really dislike this question as half of them are not actually chefs, and second because no one seems to know my favorite sadly. Gale Gand had a show called Sweet Dreams, it was my favorite show. It's not on anymore (or so I think) to make room for people to show me how to mix Cool Whip with Jello and set it in to an all orange kitchen. Bitter? Perhaps I am a tad. ;) All I have left on the Foodnetwork now is my eye candy, Tyler Florence. If you never got to see the show, too bad. Great desserts were shown how to be made by a woman who has worked at two of my all time favorites, Gotham Bar & Grill and Charlie Trotters. She has several cookbooks with Butter Sugar Flour Eggs being my favorite, but they all are good. So when I was asked if I would want to receive her Brunch book I was intrigued. Brunch? Up until now, I had only known her as the dessert woman, or guru. But heck … [Read more...]
Devil with the Blue Dress on….
Some may call BS when I say I am a rule follower. But really, I am. I never even got detention once. Because I was smart enough to know how to push the right buttons but always within the limits. The year of the Costco dresses, case in point. At the time I had what some may categorize as a highly passive-aggressive vice principal. She gave me lots of suggestions over the years from why I should get married (even though I wasn't really dating anyone), if I wasn't going to marry a man (hint are you a lesbian) that it might cause strife for the school, and there was the time that she told me to quit going to graduate school so I could go to the PTA meeting. This VP was always dressed up nicely. She was an administrator, that was her job. Though I found her insane to wear pantyhose in the hot months of Phoenix, AZ. Unfortunately, because she dressed so well, she assumed everyone else should. I had taught lab science for too many years to learn that good clothing and that subject don't … [Read more...]
