Our Fave Chocolate Cake

   I suppose chocolate cake is one of those things that, barring an allergy or something, everyone craves now and then.  Around this house, Handsome requests it infrequently because it is so very, very rich.  When he does, though, it is with much…

Joy Pockets #2

The past seven days have been emotional and busy on every front, and midweek I thought I would just skip Joy Pockets altogether because it would just feel phony. Thankfully, mercifully, legitimate joy burned through that fog pretty quickly. 1. …

Stieg Larsson (book review)

   The posthumous if scandalous fame of this recently deceased author certainly contributes to his books’ appeal, but even without that added glamour, his two breakout novels (I have yet to read the third of this trilogy but fully intend…

Potatoes A La Pinterest

   I was admittedly in a baked potato rut.  Since disovering the microwave method, seriously, there is nothing easier.  It’s nutritious, delicious, and easy.  And fast.    But like I said, rut.  Then I was browsing my fave new eye…