This column ran in last year's pre-Easter edition of the Traverse City Record- Eagle. I'm posting it here because it does two things. It has two good recipes for using leftover ham. It should make you glad that you, unlike me, did not spend yesterday morning trying to keep five sugared up boys (ages eleven and under) in the church pews and off the church ceiling. My husband and sons have a strange chromosomal bond with the remote control. They have even given said remote control a name: "The weapon of honor." This is a mystery to me. I certainly don't care even half as much as them about having the thing in my hands. View Post
Scots Bannock
Leif was really looking forward to dinner Wednesday night. He loves ham ("the pink meat"), garlic bubble bread and homemade pasta. But he adores ice cream and anything that goes with it. I had planned this meal to please him particularly. " But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, In proving foresight may be vain: The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy!" Robert Burns, from "To A Mouse" My schemes for a spectacular meal were laid last week and promptly tossed aside when my little Leify spiked a 104.9 temperature. I turned off the oven that was baking the View Post