Tag: eggs

There are times when I’m a fancy cook.  When I take time in the kitchen, slicing potatoes paper thin for Pommes Anna, slowly rendering the fat from the skin of a duck breast until it …

    When you are a working parent, each weekday can feel like a battle, and each working day, a war.  Mornings are especially chaotic – the opening shots are fired at 5:45 am, when …

I live in the suburbiest of suburbia.  Green lawns, swimming pools, sprinklers.  People walk in my neighborhood – all the time – but they’re walking their dogs or taking a walk, rather than walking to …

So if you listen to as many food-related podcasts as I do, you may have noticed that lately there has been a lot of talk about cooking (I blame Michael Pollan) - about how it's …

I was raised as a breakfast eater. Every morning before school when I was a kid, I ate breakfast – occasionally cereal with milk, often toast with cheese or peanut butter to add protein. …

\ I don't really understand the marketing of Mother's Day. I see all these floral pastel cards and delicate lacy handkerchiefs and early morning breakfast in bed and advertisements for "brunch" and "afternoon tea" with …

I have vivid childhood memories of dyeing Easter Eggs. We always made my family's traditional <a href="http://www.thedomesticfront.com/2009/04/06/craftsman-eggs/">Craftsman flower eggs</a>, but I also spent many a spring break waiting impatiently for the eggs to …