Weekend Kat Blogging: Sleepy Bedtime Baby

Kat is slowly learning to go to sleep on her own now that she is completely weaned.
Now, she lets us know when she is sleepy by climbing up on one of our couches, then assembling a nest of pillows. She then curls up on the pillows, pulls one of our cuddly throw blankets over […]

A Little Food Art For Your Weekend

This little dragon was carved by Morganna last night in the kitchen at Salaam, before our rush of customers came in for dinner. She started playing with her paring knife and a spinach leaf, and ended up essentially tooling it as one would do leather, in order to put the three-dimensional veins on the wings, […]

A Simple Sauce For Two Different Baked Fish

I have always been partial to baked fish; ever since I made psari plaki for the first time as a poor college student in my first apartment, with fresh trout a fisherman friend had given me for free, I was hooked. I decided to make the psari plaki for the first time because there are […]

Rice and Lamb Stuffed Pattypan Squash

I adore pattypan squash.

They are those round summer squashes that come in colors ranging from jade-green or cream to yellow to orange to dark green that have fluted or ridged edges and range in size from wee babies the size of a fifty-cent piece to ones that would easily fill a professional basketball player’s palm. […]

Weekend Kat Blogging: So Grown-Up

It is amazing to watch Kat grow and develop. Every day, she changes, and nearly everything she does is new and for the first time.
She now likes to help us around the house.
As you can see–Kat has decided that she likes to help vacuum the floor. Here she is using the hand-held vac, […]