On Monday, my aunt sent an email telling the Columbus Tayses that the old timey band the Carolina Chocolate Drops were coming to Dayton tonight, July 1, for a free performance during CityFolk Fest. Moments after the news hit my inbox, my Mom called. “Did you hear? Where will we stay?” There was no...
Read more →This week has been all about flowers here. When we returned to Ohio, everything was in bloom! Along with all others who marvel at plants and science, we had to trek to the Ohio State University campus to view the largest flower in the world. Rarely coaxed to bloom in a greenhouse, a Titan...
Read more →The lovely Catherine of Photo Kitchen came over last week to take photographs for Hounds in the Kitchen Egg Week 2011. Yesterday, I shared how to blow out eggshells. Continue reading for recipes, tips, and even an eggshell planting project. Encouraged by my friend Vanessa Prentice, I made egg dyes from edible materials this...
Read more →I am still off playing with kids at Franklin Park conservatory. What better time than now for you to talk amongst yourselves? That’s right, I want you readers to come out from behind the screen. This is your open invitation to introduce yourself. Tell us a little about where you live, whether and what...
Read more →It’s Pi Day 2011! Get it? 3.14 aka 3/14 aka March 14? Celebrate the transcendental constant π with Hounds in the Kitchen by including your favorite post about pi or pie in the Linky below. Feel free to link to a recipe, homeschool lesson on circles, or geometry related story. It’s fine if the...
Read more →Here are five cooking thoughts trolling through my taste buds: 1) Lil ate root vegetables! – I agreed to make a video featuring Newman’s Own ingredients in exchange for a video camera and some of their products. I do honestly purchase Newman’s Own products and genuinely like the brand, so this was an easy...
Read more →I mentioned a few times that I love Ohio apples. My sentiments are now indelibly inked on my shoulder, courtesy of Julie Edwards Whittaker, now tattooing at High Street Tattoo.
Read more →Precious few family and friends will receive a Santa Chicken in the mail this week. As is our family tradition, Lil’s illustration was printed on a postcard. She later painstakingly water colored each chicken. Lil offers you, dear readers, her chicken christmas joke. “Why did the chicken cross the road?” “To eat the Christmas...
Read more →It is now twenty days until my 30th birthday. The day after my 30 before 30 post, my next youngest sister (do you know I’m the oldest of four sisters?) knocked on the door, shoved a handful of pennies at me, and walked away. I later counted them; there were thirty. Nothing happened the...
Read more →Every night after cooking, gardening, parenting and teaching, I settle in to bed to read. Columbus is the home of the number one library in the nation by many measures; most of the books on my nightstand come from their nonfiction section. Below are my thoughts on three recent reads: Matthew Amster-Burton’s Hungry Monkey:...
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