I got these for Kate a while back, and I've been wanting to get a picture. (They're cute! And pink!) At this point I'm not ...

My mom sent us her old KitchenAid mixer (thanks Mom!) and we have been having great fun with it. In the days before Christmas I was busy ma...

Our day of thanks included Indian food, Kandle Park, and pie. Relaxing, and tasty! (That's my no-sugar apple pie, sweetened with hon...

I don't think I've ever mentioned here that Doug served a mission in Texas (San Antonio, English speaking). His first encounter wit...

Yes, I'm still here! Just very distractible. As usual. We had Glory and Sky over for a pretzel making party this last Thursday. I ...

Andy's first taste of kim . (Actually his second taste--we gave him one piece and he chomped it down, so Doug got the video camera.) Af...

Doug made these for Kate. Apparently ricotta cheese is the secret ingredient that helps them keep their shape. There was a little left in t...

Friday night we had a ward activity (at church) with a soup dinner. Lots of different kinds of yummy soups. (I had two helpings of Sarah ...

We haven't made pretzels for quite a while. It's a rather time-consuming production. But a couple of weeks ago we went to the mall...

We like Trader Joe's. A lot. We used to have to go all the way to Federal Way to get to one (which didn't happen very often), so w...

I suppose every child figures out how to do this without any prompting. Yum! And here's Kate with a pomegranate juice popsicle. We got...

Kimberly in China recently posted on her blog about the Chinese age system. The year that you're born is your first year, and your age...

This is not a post about medicine. This is actually a post about cinnamon . We have recently discovered that Kate really likes cinnamon, b...

This is one of the things that I got for Doug for Christmas. Salt! Not just any salt--Danish Viking-Smoked Sea Salt. We don't know if...

By request, here's the recipe, with comments from Doug. (modified from The Soup Bible , edited by Deborah Mayhew, New York: Hermes H...

Doug got this little pumpkin/gourd thing for Kate a few days ago, and I drew a face on it with a Sharpie marker. Kate loves her little pum...

A couple of weeks ago we went down to Lakewood for a Korean dinner with our friends Don and Jill Tracy, who had never had Korean food befo...