HOME– Divinity was the forbidden confection of my childhood. It taunted me through the holidays. It would be made in secret batches (Aunt Donna was the usual suspect responsible for the most delectable morsels) and kept under tight security in special Tupperware containers, passed around furtively to card-carrying, Adults Only. Children were never offered divinity. [...]
HOME– Earlier today, I had a lemony epiphany. I can make lemon bark for the party! I love lemon bark. It’s so simple to make and the taste is all at once zesty and lemony, yet mellow. The texture is crunchy like candy, yet, ever so willing to softly melt in your mouth, leaving behind [...]
HOME-AWAY-FROM-HOME– Jackie (Mom) and I drive over to visit our lifelong friends, Teresa and her mom, Barbara. They are two of our favorite people on this Earth. They may as well be family. They’re both great story tellers– so full of life, so fun to be around. They also happen to be wonderful Southern cooks. [...]
HOME– Well, we’ve made it. We’re half way through the month! I say, we, because frankly, if you weren’t here, reading this, I feel sure I would’ve given up on my {what-was-I-thinking!??} idea to post every day for the month of November. So far, the writing itself has been all fun, with only few creative-blocks, [...]
EXTRA! EXTRA!–Year one is done. The Paper Apron is officially 1 year old! Summer is turning into fall and I feel strangely grown up as I head into my second school year of blogging. What will I learn next? The weather outside is breathtakingly beautiful. A brisk wind is blowing through the air and life [...]
HOME– Loving your work doesn’t make your work easy. And yes, even if you work from home… I really toiled this week. Deadlines swirled around me like a hurricane and I missed two work outs, an afternoon matinee date with Rich and then came the tell-all– one night, I was too exhausted to cook. Oh, [...]
“I’ve been secretly puffing the magic pastry all summer.” – signed, Little Jackie Paper Apron. I say secretly because frozen puff pastry makes tart baking so easy that I’ve been a bit reluctant to admit just how often I use it. I’m not a puffoholic, but I am addicted to the oohs and ahhs swirling [...]
HOME– There’s no time to revisit my baking prowess or lack thereof right now. It’s too hot to make excuses and too hot to bake. I need a quick and easy treat. I need a cheat. I understand that made-from-scratch goodies are all the rage in the fall and winter, but in the summer, less [...]
HOME– I ♥ cherries. If I bring fresh cherries into this house, they disappear by nightfall. They’re like little purple swallows that fly away in a conversation. Sweet black cherries and ruby red Bings cast a spell on you and then they are gone, leaving behind a tiny memory sitting cleverly on your tongue like [...]
PARIS– I prefer to savor one dish in its entirety without mixing my meal together on a plate like a swamp of grits, runny eggs and bacon. Well, unless it’s grits, runny eggs and bacon. There’s a label for my peculiarity: uni-eater. Lucky for moi, French meals progress in a way that is particularly satisfying [...]
HOME– I had a bumble bee in my kitchen yesterday. Rich helped me catch it in a jar and we set it free. Today, my kitchen is still buzzing with the frenzy that comes before a holiday gathering. Although Easter dinner seems so much easier to make than most of our holiday meals. Easter recipes [...]
HOME– I know. I’ve been away. Forgive me and thank you for noticing. It’s just that I’ve been crazy busy with new work projects and well, a little something else that is a surprise for now. Shhhh! I can’t say, yet. We’ll get back to that next week. Back to the present. Mainly, I’ve been [...]
HOME– I am a creature of habit. Each weekday, I start my morning with a bowl of bran cereal topped with skim milk, wheat germ, and a handful of frozen sweet black cherries. All of this is accompanied by no less than two cups of strong, piping-hot coffee. Coffee wakes my brain up; frozen cherries [...]
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Divinity, My Forbidden Confection -or- How to Torture Children with Holiday Candy (12)
