Remains of the Day

So I was going to write a post about pectin being a conspiracy to make money off of an industrial by-product, and my technique for making p...

Usually when you appear in my mailbox, I neglect all of my other duties to read you—I prop you up next to the recipe card and read “the mail...

I'm doing my utmost to squeeze an entire summer vacation into Saturday and Sunday segment (while not resenting those who have actual su...

1.  Summer came suddenly yesterday (ya know, on the summer solstice), with temps going from 60s during the day and 40s (brrr) at night to t...

I know, I know, I always make these lists (though it looks like I skipped last year--here's 2010 and 2009 ), and I probably never ac...

A couple of weekends ago, we were heading to our friend's camp ("camp" being Maineglish for "house/cabin/cottage on a la...

On Saturday, the boys and I made this garland/mobile thingy for C for Father's Day: When we were at the Coastal Maine Botanic Gar...