The Cluttered Pantry

It’s that time of year again. Every winter I gather all our favorite soup and stew recipes and bring down the crock pot and restaurant containers and spend the better part of a day making as many different meals as I can fit into our basement freezer. It’s something that I fine tune a [...]

Each week we pick a theme that we reinforce with the art projects, “field trips”, cooking and play we do with the girls. This week is transportation. I asked the girls to go through their toy boxes and bring me toys that help us get where we we want to go.
My favorite of [...]

Earlier this evening, after the girls were asleep, I went back downstairs to finish a painting project (yes, I underestimated the number of coats of paint it would take to make our dining room walls red.)
I’m not certain how long she was calling out for me, but I didn’t hear Elena until after she [...]

After a long day of the Wee Kahunas letting me know, in not so subtle little kid manner, that they don’t approve of this whole Daddy going away for 14 days thing. (By testing every limit and rule – including laws of nature like -gravity.) I gratefully climbed into bed early to try and catch [...]

Main Ingredients:
4 cups Ricotta Cheese
1/2 cup sugar
5 large eggs lightly beaten
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 1/2 cup heavy cream
1/3 cup finely chopped almonds

Ok, so we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves here….but at this point we are planning on a combination of montessouri pre-school and homeschool for the girls, at least for the first couple of years if possible.
There are lots of ways to do this, but regardless of the “school of thought” [...]

The ongoing goal of getting the girls somewhere on the growth charts leads us to seeking out the highest fat and calorie ways to cook even simple dishes…It’s really hard to balance the goal of weight gain with the overwhelming desire to give them only the most nutrious of foods to make up for the [...]

Not your regular kind of foodie post here…but we have Wee Kahunas that started out in our family so small that they didn’t register on the growth charts of infants. So a major part of the last ten months has been finding ways to get calories into foods without making them so rich or [...]

We’re starting the new year with both girls finally healthy again. It seems like we were passing out cough medicine and motrin by the bucket for a while there.
Life is hectic, not more than I guess you’d expect for a family with two toddlers, two dogs, and a small corporation to run. But hectic, [...]