Last Minute Valentine’s Heart Cookies

Mir working the dough

Did Valentine’s Day creep up on you? It certainly sneaked up on me, despite the number of Valentine’s crafts we’ve been making (potpourri sachets with disposable teabags and doilies, cards, door hangings, and bookmarks for the grandparents). Fortunately enough, Valentine’s day is a work day, which means Mir and I have until around seven tonight [...]

Popovers for Piglet, from The Winnie-the-Pooh Cookbook

Cover, The Winnie-the-Pooh Cookbook, by Virginia Ellison

In my quest to find cookbooks appropriate for a two-year-old, I stumbled across Virginia Ellison’s Winnie the Pooh Cookbook. It’s not the only cookbook of its kind–a quick Amazon search reveals at least three others in a similar vein (and I think I may have to buy the Teatime Cookbook). So far, we’ve made Honey Oatmeal [...]

Little Bear’s Porridge

There is something so comforting about warm porridge and a basket of hot boiled eggs on a winter’s morning that then, of all times, I am most on Goldilocks’ side. In reality, I know that stealing porridge from bears—particularly anthropomorphized bears—is wrong. But on an overcast day with a chill on the air, I find [...]