Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
I’ve got a confession. I don’t like the “anti-negativity” movement that I’m starting to see on social media an awful lot. I get it. I really do. There’s a lot of bad crap on the internet. I’ve lived in this space for over 20 years now. I know how it can be emotionally draining, and…
The pop-ularity of a simple bowl of popcorn cannot be overstated in my household. To be honest, my love affair with the bright yellow kernels began as a child while helping my grandfather every weekend pop, bag, and seal huge bags of this delectable snack, which were then delivered to local pubs, “mom and pop”…
(Hey readers, my mom is covering my butt this week with a guest post during the start of our bathroom renovation project. This is the lady who used to threaten to ground me for making comma splices. You can see it’s stood me in good stead all these years later. Enjoy! –Anne)
I’ve got people firing cannon shots at me over my decision to put my family on a version of the SNAP challenge for the month of May. I am a hypocrite, some say, for being a middle-class person “pretending to be poor.” If you believe this is true of me, here is what I say to…
The vitamin supplement industry has been a little under fire recently, with many hopping the bandwagon that in North America, with all the food advantages that we have plus a little “outdoor time” thrown in, they’re not required. All well and good, except for one thing: I’m not sure that all children in North America are getting…
It’s amazing how the time everyone’s out for the holidays goes by both so fast and so slowly at the same time. On one hand, you’re always like, “Oh, there’s plenty of time to do something, everyone’s futzing around for the holidays anyway.” Then the Monday comes that everyone goes back to school and work,…
I love being in the kitchen, and it has nothing to do with my gender. You know what kills my joy? Having it intimated that this is the place where I belong… because I am a woman. No other reason. The kitchen is where I am, because this is what I love. This is my…
I made it about 1/3 of the way through #NaBloPoMo before my brain failed me and I ran out of something to talk about. It could have something to do with the fact that I’ve used up all my food recipes and haven’t made anything new yet, because when your nose is stuffed, it’s hard…
You know the best part about #NaBloPoMo? I realized I have about 40 posts in drafts that are in some random stage of completion. I guess this is a perfect opportunity to clean them out. So I found this one where I started writing about things that I want to do as a food blogger/kitchen…
Disclaimer: Post Foods has paid me no compensation; my mom thinks this story is hilarious. I was actually a good cook long before I had a son with food allergies (or at least, nobody has yet complained). Relatives who hate cooking mooch off me during the holidays (I like cooking so I don’t mind). I used…