Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
Left to their own choices, my kids would opt to eat chicken nuggets, cheese burgers and french fries, and pizza for dinner every night. They’d also choose sugary cereal and soda, and dessert every night. Unfortunately for them that doesn’t jive with the adults ruling the house. One of those rules is I don’t cut…
1) Scarlet fever boy 2) Bike Lane 3) Results of a day in the kitchen 4) Polar Dash 5) Gingerbread made by my daughter 6) Bedtime stories 7) TGIF
I went to Whole Foods last weekend in search of duck and came home with a grocery bag of random food stuff. I guess I was hungry. One of the things I came home with were these red lentils… No specific plan for them, they just caught my eye when I was getting some white…
Monday is a good a day as any for a sick day. Not me, and nothing serious. The littlest is on day two of a fever and sore throat. He deemed me “his butler for the day”. Nice. Could be a lot worse, really he just want me to hangout and watch movies with him…
There was nothing polar about this year’s weather, it was 50º with humidity. Pretty balmy for a January race in Chicago. The weather did not last, today it is half that and the ground is one big sheet of ice. The number of runners was pretty low, especially given there were three distances being raced,…
1) Five day work week 2) Our favorite view on the walk to school. 3) Chimichurri lollipop lamb chops 4) Blue sky 5) Timely gift arrived the same day of the NYC marathon resolution decision 6) Training 7) Back to the daily routine
Happy Tuesday, slowly getting to Friday. So I got a new toy for Christmas… I guess I was good this year. Good enough anyway! Love the color, it is perfect in our kitchen. I especially love the weight of the cast iron, and the coating. I broke it in almost immediately for Biz’s simply crusty…
Even though I worked a bit over the holiday break, it still felt like a two week break from the normal crap. The kids were off of school and we both had the majority of the time off. It was a busy few weeks but believe me I found plenty of time to sit on…
New year, new week, and thankfully the weekend already!