Earlier this week, on my way to Best Buy, I went out to lunch in the city with a friend, and he took me to a Salvadoran restaurant that serves up some tasty tortilla-like pockets filled with pork, called "pupusas". I had never had these before, and they were quite good, so I decided to try and make them myself.  read more »

Tonight, I had a great night alone with the kids. Choosymom was working late, and then had an after-hours holiday party to attend with her fellow librarians. So I decided to make it a "fun" night. First, we stopped by the library and picked up the new Narnia movie, which was fantastic. I read the entire series when I was a teen and although I don't remember them too much, I suspect that the movies are doing a good job of convincing an entirely new generation to read them.  read more »

Tonight for desert we had brownie jerky. It wasn't intentional. I had whipped up a relatively successful curry meal and was feeling quite spirited and confident, so I tried adding marshmallows on top of the brownies when they had been in the oven for about half of their baking time. Don't ever do this. It just didn't work. Sure, the marshmallows swelled up and looked almost as tasty as if they were roasting on sticks over a campfire, but the darn brownie mix would not solidify underneath.  read more »