The Cluttered Pantry

Not really a recipe needed here. The girls were frozen after an afternoon at the playground and Elena announced that hot chocolate and chocolate chip banana bread would keep her warm all over.
We ran out of marshmallows so I punted and used a scoop of frozen cool whip (why have I not tried [...]

The pantry has been pretty cluttered lately. Real life and work took over and has had us thinking of meals as a thing to grab between work and time with the girls. I miss cooking, and I miss family meals and honestly I miss being able to find something in my pantry without [...]

The winter and spring rushed by us this year, other than managing to over-seed the herb garden with basil (the girls helped me place the seeds-but we got busy and started traveling again and I missed the stage where you are supposed to thin out the tiny plants-anybody want some homemade pesto?) we haven’t done [...]

March?!  How could my last post have been in March?  It’s June, 3 months have flown by and I haven’t had a moment to spare since March…  yoikes.   So, here we are, the first week of June – Mark is leaving for shoots in Dublin and Madrid for the first half of the month, [...]

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 [...]

We returned from our last trip to Siberia in late 2008. Making 2009 our first full year as a family at home with the Wee Kahunas. I haven’t really felt compelled to mark our court date  (the date we legally became the girls parents) nor the day in October that we flew home with the girls, [...]

Hey Chicago! Haven’t purchased your tickets for the Share Our Strength’s – A Tasteful Pursuit Dinner Yet?! What are you waiting for? A discount? Oh ok, here you go!
Use the discount code “kendallffr” to get a reduced price of $95 (regular ticket price is $150). Enter it in the Discount Code Box when you  Click [...]

I’m still getting my feet wet with promoting The Cluttered Pantry using Twitter, Face Book, participating in the FoodBuzz community, and sending out emails and notes to everyone I can think of who might be interested in the content of our site.
It’s going well, we continue to have nice growth in our regular reading audience, and I’m [...]