Anouk is finally getting to the age where cooking is as much fun for her as eating, and so I'm on the lookout lately for kid-friendly recipes that are as easy as they are delicious. I found this one, for crescent-roll apple dumplings, at the Better Cookies blog, and with a few tweaks, it fit the bill entirely. Try it -- I promise you'll like...
I have to admit right off the bat that Mount Trashmore is not one of J.'s favorite places. He comes from DC, a place where they ship their garbage off to West Virginia when they're done with it. They definitely don't heap it up in the middle of town and cover it with grass to make a nice little park out of it,...
I had the Wednesday before Thanksgiving marked on my calendar since September and not just because I was excited for the holiday, but because it was the day my family and friends planned to walk through the Botanical Garden's Garden of Lights as part of the Million Bulb Walk. From Thanksgiving to New Year's Eve, the Garden of Lights is open to vehicle...
I have to tell you, I was shocked (SHOCKED!) when I found out that our friends, Miss Molly, Z. and A., had been living in Norfolk for almost half a year and had not yet been to Doumar's, that old Norfolk institution, where the ice cream cone was invented, and where you can still pull up under the awning in your car and...
We have a few pre-Thanksgiving playdates scheduled for this week, and so this weekend, Anne and I set to work making a little treat to take along to give to our friends when we see them. Pumpkin pie playdough! It made our house smell super-amazing. I've been thinking of scented play dough for a while. I like the idea of making playdough into...
This past Sunday, we took advantage of the amazing weather and met up with some friends at one of my favorite spots in all of the Norfolk Botanical Garden: the Airport Overlook. Though I don't like flying on planes, I do like sitting at the top of the overlook hill and peering down into Norfolk International Airport and watching the planes come in and...
I love food, and as such, I am always on the lookout for new and interesting places to eat, which is why, sometimes, in the middle of a conversation, someone will mention something about a sandwich they got at a roadside stand on the way to a wedding out of state and I will holler out, "WAIT. Go back to this sandwich." This...
Oh, November! You are really flying by this year. Or maybe it's just that the general sluggishness that hits me when Daylight Savings ends has hit me extra hard this year that makes it seem like it's all flying by. Plus the election -- and the houseguests who so kindly visited us -- and Nanowrimo, which I have decided to (try to) participate...
One of the reasons I'm glad we joined the CSA at New Earth Farm this fall is that we now have an excuse to visit the farm every weekend, come rain or shine. Over the past few months, it has become one of my favorite places. Not only is it the place where we get most of our food, not only is it...
