March 2011
2 posts
A different kind of cupcake
My son recently turned 2. Last year I made a cake (half yellow/half chocolate) and decorated it with an elephant I drew freehand in icing and made him a personal cupcake to nom — the whole shebang. This year I was a week out from his big day and just did not have it in me. I didn’t trust my artistic skills to pull off a train my little boy would recognize.
So I decided on cupcakes...
Slippery dumplins' are the way to go
I never realized the chicken and dumplings (when I say this it sounds more like “chikn n dumplins”) I grew up eating were a uniquely Delaware dish, though I do have very specific memories of my Uncle Leonard making dumplings in my grandmother’s kitchen. After he had a stroke that paralyzed one side of his body, he still came and rolled out paper-thin dumplins with one arm. He...
