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 year. I was surprised to find that natural dyes are easy to make, completely safe to consume, and don’t stain your [...]

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 you like to cook, if you have a garden, and the URL of your blog if you have one. Whatever you [...]

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 post is an older one – we want to read what you think about 3.14159265359… I want to share how I [...]

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 video to kick out. What surprised me was that my co-star, picky daughter Lil, actually ate the sweet potatoes and beets [...]

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.

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 worm.” Ho ho!

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 next day. The day after that, the dogs barked wildly at Lil’s bedtime.  We stopped reading a story and found two [...]