It seems I have been reading a lot of books from University of Minnesota Press lately. The book Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America’s First Lady of Food by Susan Marks was a gift from our local library last year. The Hutchinson library holds an adult reading program during the winter and last year [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Hutchinson Arts and Crafts Fair
September 18, 2009 – 7:42 pm
Hutchinson has an annual arts and crafts fair that I usually check out. I’m still waiting to hit the lottery so I can actually buy more of the stuff I see rather than drool all over it like the sculpture above. Every year I do a quick walk-thru taking note of what everyone has then [...]
Swedish Limpa Bread
September 18, 2009 – 3:57 am
Earlier I said I would give my report on the limpa. Well. . . I am not exactly sure how I feel about it. It turned out pretty and was very easy to make. I know I like the flavor orange, but maybe not in my bread. I know I like the flavor fennel, but [...]
Adventures in Scandinavian Baking
September 17, 2009 – 8:33 pm
I haven’t been this excited about a cookbook in a long time. I found this during our city-wide garage sale last weekend for 25 cents! I picked it up thinking I would use it to learn how to make my husband some of this Scandinavian fair he is used to but when I started reading [...]
The Stay at Home Mom
September 15, 2009 – 2:21 pm
I’ll be honest. When Josh and I decided that one of us would always stay home with our kids it wasn’t so much because we knew and understood what the benefits of that would be. It was more like, “Well the cost of daycare is so high if we both work, really one of the [...]
