I’ve decided to make this soup week. I could tell you it is because soup simmers one’s soul in the winter, melting the blues from the inside out, (or that eating soup apparently makes you write syrupy prose), but the real reason I’m dedicating the week to hearty broths is because of last week: I was stuck […]

Thanksgiving day at the Reinhardt’s isn’t what you would call normal. For one, we go to work. Eric started about 4:30am. I followed after dropping off the kids to our village – grandma and grandpa. Then we proceed to shell out turkeys and complete dinners to the masses. The kids know the drill. They know we’ll arrive about 3pm, laden […]

What can I say? Thanksgiving dinner is my favorite meal. You would think that after managing over 100 turkey orders, many of which are complete dinners for 6-12, that I might be sick of turkey. I know Eric is. He eats steak on Thanksgiving. But I love turkey with all the trimmings. I also am […]

I have some wonderful neighbors in our little hood. We have an interesting street. It’s kind of the intersection of many parts of Fremont. Part arty/funky, part 20’s somethings/apartment dwellers, part families with young kids, and part…downright sketchy. It’s the sketchy part that has brought the neighbors together. Banding against the crime literally happening in […]

I’m thankful for so much, that I thought I’d put a few of them down this week. To start, since we have vats of turkeys in the brine right now, I am thankful for salt. It’s just a little thing. I should put down family and love and all the big stuff. And I will. […]