“Who’s made cranberry sauce before?” Chef asked this morning as he started to demo today’s recipes for cranberry sauce and candied yams ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. My arm shot up. Homemade cranberry sauce is my jam, pun totally intended, every year at Thanksgiving, make it fresh, ditch the canned jiggly stuff. “One person?” He … Continue reading More White People Food
White People Food
I think a lot about the intersection of food and the socially constructed ideas we have about it. That’s not directly the purpose of my post here, just setting some context. And full disclosure, as the great wordsmith Weird Al Yankovich declared, “I’m nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour cream.” With ancestry hailing … Continue reading White People Food
NotNoWriMo
After last year’s staggering inaugural NaNoWriMo run of 66,323 words focused on the seed of a memoir brewing in my soul, I was kind of excited to get back to it this year, especially since I’ve not done a whole lot with that word stash since, except think a whole lot about what in the … Continue reading NotNoWriMo
Back to School
If you had told me in my twenties that in my forties I’d be going back to community college and applying for work as a lunch lady, I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t be pretty soul crushed. Yet here I am. To be fair, if you’d also told me in my twenties that … Continue reading Back to School
It Starts With Quiche 