Candy Christmas

(the title is shamelessly stolen from an email written by a good friend about her envy-inducing Southeast Asian Adventure.) These are facts about Kirstin: – She loves to cook and bake and eat – She doesn’t particularly enjoy shopping – She has a growing scrooge-ness toward owning too many things that she projects onto other …

Gnocchi

I had vague intentions of posting this before the grand move to Bishkek, but, uh, you know. Life gets in the way. Camera cords end up in boxes they aren’t supposed to and precious stateside time is withered away trying to squeeze a piano out of the tiny apartment. Sigh. Rather than trying to edit …

Peach sorbet and lemon-mint sherbert

Let’s put this to rest once and for all: Sherbet or sherbert? Maybe it’s another one of those strange colloquialisms that’s now ingrained in my mind as “normal”. I say that it’s pronounced “sherbert“. Farrell is on Team Sherbet. So far several friends agree with me. Wikipedia has proven to be so neutral that it …