Welcoming the Year of the Pig!

Last night was the opening of the week long celebration of Chinese New Year and ushered in the Year of the Pig. Babies born during this year will be gifted with extra luck and wealth, according to the ancient beliefs in Chinese astronomy.
In celebration, this week all of my posts will be relating to the […]

Weekend Kat Blogging: Fairy Sisters

My wee goblin girls have sprouted wings and turned into fairies.

Such mutability is natural for denizens of the realm of Faerie; it is as natural for the Good Folk to change shape and form as it is for humans to change their clothes. So, I was not surprised to see my daughters manifest wings and […]

More Peas, Please!

It used to be that I hated peas.
I think it had to do with being forced to eat mushy, olive-drab, tinny-tasting canned peas with pearl onions as a child. Or worse, garden fresh or frozen peas cooked into a similar state of squishy, dull-green death. These poor malignantly mistreated morsels of former vegetation were regularly […]

Confessions of an Alpha Cook

As a special Valentine’s Day treat, the New York Times printed an article entitled, “He Cooks. She Stews. It’s Love.”
Basically, it is about the power struggles married or cohabiting couples experience in the kitchen when it comes to daily meal preparation, cleanup, entertaining and just plain chores. Naming the primary cook in a couple the […]

Variations on Chinese Recipes

Most of the recipes presented on this blog are ones that either are, or have become, favorites at my house, and they turn into standards that live in my head, and I no longer have to seek the written recipe in order to recreate them.
However, these recipes do not stay static. I do not make […]