Beef actually does not a proper shepherd’s pie make. I once bore witness to a visiting British friend of mine’s hilarious 30 minute gripe-capade on the subject over several beers at the local “Irish” pub called Sláinte (which he referred bitingly to as charmingly TGI-Irish… but with an acceptably-served Guinness draft). Incidentally, we learned that night…
Safety First? Or Are We Dumbing Down Chemistry in School Too Much?
People like to quote Oppenheimer when they talk about science that has forever altered the world. “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” did inspire decades of science fiction dystopia, I suppose, and the atomic bomb did fundamentally change the nature of how warfare was waged. Physics did have its time in the sun as…
St. Patrick’s Day Hat – Guest Author @Youpinspireme
That Time My Kid Touched a Kit Kat and Could Have Died (a Story About Life with Food Allergies)
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Green Beans with Mozzarella + Tomatoes (Fagiolini in Tegame alla Italiana)
I was tooling around in the grocery store, feeling the winter angst over crappy winter vegetable offerings, when I happened to see that–for once–there were actually some ripe Roma tomatoes on display. They smelled ripe, which is to say, they actually smelled like a tomato instead of stale grocery store. Hubs and kidlet aren’t usually fans of…
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Kitchen Gadgets I Can’t Live Without (Guest post by @TheEuropeanMama)
As much as I love making things from scratch, I also very much appreciate all technology especially designed to make my life easier. And sometimes said technology helps me make things from scratch, which is kind of ironic. For a long time, we lived in rented apartments so I used what was available, but once…