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  • It's not sportingto make fun of the USDA. They're such an easy target. While we werein Washington the other day, we walked past the USDA headquarters, ahuge building near the Mall. I wondered if somewhere inside…

  • Behold

    The $118 roast.I had a picture of it raw too, but Drama Queen deleted it from her camera. It was expensive, but it served eight people for dinner, plus we brought a plate to our friend who was stuck at work on Christmas,…

  • A Dear John letter

    Dear Jon,Dried lavender in the spaghetti sauce is not a happy combination.Love,AileenJon is proud of his sauce, and rightly so, because it's good. He will often make his sauce for dinner when I am too tired to cook, and…

  • Profiteroles!

    Last night I skipped class so that we could go to International Night at Drama Queen's school. Everyone is supposed to bring a dish that reflects their national heritage, which, down here, means a lot of macaroni and ch…

  • Domestic matters

    More. So. To Hell With All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife. Amazon reviewers hated it, mainly because Caitlin Flanagan has the audacity to hire a nanny and not work outside the home. They also see her …

  • Edit: No disrespect meant to Gerald Ford, but three days in a row with no mail is more than I can take.My father arrived yesterday, and since I worked, it was Jon's responsibility to prepare a nice dinner for him. …

  • Continuing cooking through the Cabbagetown Cafe Cookbook. Yesterday I baked “Mindy's Black Bread,” a recipe that I've long wanted to try. If you remember your Heidi, then you know that the poor Grandmother had to ea…

  • Feeling agreeably domestic today. One site I read daily is C'ville blogs, a collection of bloggers in the Charlottesville area, one of whom has devoted her entire site to her plan to cook every single recipe in The …

  • I resisted reading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius because the title turned me off. With a title like that, I figured it would be maudlin and pretentious and awful. Surprise! I love it. So much so, that I…

  • I caught a story this morning on the Today show about how families are coping with higher gas prices. It was so lame! They went to Houston and interviewed a few people--all of whom were driving big SUVs--and everyone t…