Jacky Hackett: Cooking, eating, reading, riding my bike that goes nowhere — living my best porch life.
Nuts and the holidays go hand in hand to me. Growing up a bowl of shelled nuts and nut crackers were a fixture on our table beginning at Thanksgiving until the New Year. Their role was multipurpose serving as decoration, conversation piece and belly filler. It was a good excuse to make a mess…
Most of my gifts to family and friends this year will be homemade. I knew I wanted to do something with the leftover dried chilies I had from the Marx Food Chile Challenge. A big sale on grapeseed oil caught my eye and the outcome was a charred Chile oil gift. Charred Chile Oil makes…
The whole Christmas routine has gotten away from this year. Between work and the kid’s activities I have not had time to dedicate. Today at work they sent everyone home early just for the fun of it. How awesome is that! Well since I was working at home that bought me even more time. I…
Christmas, you just can’t sneak up on a girl like this. Hiding behind the next corner to jump out at me, not Cool! I am so far behind, and having to go to the office this weekend is not helping. I am doing all my shopping on Amazon this year. If they don’t have it,…
This time of year always comes at me like a category five storm I am not sure I will survive. Honestly I have come to dread the “holiday season”. When did Christmas become a whole season that begins about Halloween and last until early January? Or in some cases June when the neighbors finally decide…