Pensive Frog

I imagine that the best thing about being incarcerated is the guarantee of three square meals a day. No menu planning, no grocery shopping, just exit your cell in an orderly fashion three times a day and file into the prison cafeteria to receive your portion of pipin’ hot prison food.
Okay, prison [...]

No time for a lengthy post at the moment, but I saw this site and had to share. I think it’s exactly the kind of thing that will appeal to my regular reader(s).
Ever notice that fast food looks way better in advertisements than it does in real life? Here’s incontrovertible proof.

I’ve heard of several… shall we say, interesting things that women choose to do with their placentas after giving birth. There’s the classic “bury it in the garden” approach, but I only have a patio container garden and I think an umbilical cord trailing out of a windowbox might scare the neighbors. Then [...]

Last weekend I attended my first baby education class! I started small, with a seminar on taking care of newborns and breastfeeding. I learned many awesome things, such as:
1. My belly is as big, or bigger than pregnant ladies with due dates several weeks (i.e., 4-6 weeks) earlier than mine.
2. I [...]

That’s the first thing that crossed my mind when I was David Lebovitz’s recipe for Candied Bacon Ice Cream. But no, he’s serious! And it looks seriously good. I have David’s ice cream cookbook The Perfect Scoop, but his Salted Butter Caramel Ice Cream was so good I stopped making ice cream [...]

One of the more annoying aspects of pregnancy is forbidden foods. In particular, forbidden drinks. Yes, I used to enjoy alcoholic beverages, but that vice has pretty much been put on hold. Strangely, I don’t miss the alcohol as much as I miss the variety of taste. The tart tannins of [...]