Because someone, somewhere, thinks that your parenting sucks. Might as well celebrate it.
The least shocking news of 2012 broke this week, with deep South, deep-fat fryin’ down-home cooking guru Paula Deen admitting that she has type-2 diabetes, something the rags have been dishing on for years. With signature recipes including Southern Fried Chicken, Cheese Biscuits, Krispy Kreme Bread Pudding and Paula’s Fried Butter Balls, as well as [...]
Yes, I said it. Holidays. Christmas or Hannukkah or Kwaanza or whatever your particular flavour of end of year celebration might be, the season is nearly upon us. Already, you say? WTF? Wasn’t it July 1st last week? And how the hell am I going to get through this without losing my mind? The answer, [...]
Dear Easter-Celebrating People Of Earth, It is I, the humble dinner plate, and I have a complaint to take up with you, lo this week before Easter. I know that you are, at this very moment, plotting your Easter feasts, and you are, I know, drawing up grocery lists on which you are including things [...]
I recently declared myself Chairmom of Virtual Kitchen Stadium Canada so that I could watch and learn from aspiring IronMom Chefs as they take select ingredients from Clover Leaf Foods and spin them – in five minutes or less! – into delicious meals. IronMom Chef Maria, IronMom Chef Caroline, IronMom Chef Amy, IronMom Chef Loukia [...]
Look, people, it’s an absurd world out there. Completely absurd. And every absurdity is being captured by the lens of reality TV. Homeless men can get broadcasting jobs and free homes just by pitching a guy with a flipcam at a traffic light. Adult, seemingly sane women “compete” to marry a man who’s been sleeping [...]
So, this might not come as a surprise coming from the editor of a site that that has categories like ‘Bad Cookery’ and ‘Bad Housekeeping,’ but I’m a pretty bad homemaker. I’m an incompetent cook, and I hate housekeeping. Except for making coffee and soup and vacuuming. I kind of love vacuuming. ANYWAY. I might [...]
EAT IT / EAT IT / EAT IT / EAT IT / EAT IT. WRONG ANSWER. Sure, you should eat some of the leftover Halloween candy. You wouldn’t be human if you didn’t pilfer a few of those Wunderbars and eat them for breakfast one or two or three days in a row (we don’t [...]
I’m thinking that if one were to try to render what childbirth looks like in baked goods, the result might not be as pretty – or, um, as appetizing – as this gingerbread depiction of what is usually scientifically described as teh lady parts, but I’m guessing one would have to use a lot more [...]
Here’s the thing about getting a brand spanking new gas range for your kitchen: you will be so overwhelmed by the culinary possibilities offered by such a magnificent piece of cooking equipment that you will – despite having no talent for cooking – feel compelled to make things like garlic mashed potatoes at 10:48am in [...]
I’m just going to go right and call this one: it’s stupid. It’s really, really stupid. It’s an Australian PSA that equates feeding your children hamburgers with giving them heroin. That’s right. HEROIN. I’ll bet you didn’t know that giving kids heroin was okay now. Seriously: we all know that regular trips with the kids [...]
We couldn’t have asked for a more appropriate cake to honour the day when we are to celebrate the achievements of our labour. Warning: NSFW unless your workplace encourages pornographic icing fetishes.
Confession: I give my daughter cereal with chocolate milk for breakfast sometimes. I do. There, I said it. (phew!) See, she hates white milk (something I can’t blame her for, since I share the same sentiments) and isn’t much for cereal, but every once and a while she craves a bowl. When she does, I [...]
If you do nothing else today, be sure to take one minute and fifty-four seconds to watch this ‘modern-day’ Sesame Street video clip. Shot somewhere around the mid to late 90s, it features two Weimaraners baking homemade loaves of bread, and it’s gone… wait for it!… straight to the dogs.
I have totally failed in the serving the family dinner department lately. Not that we’ve ever lived a sort of traditional family life (meaning my big strong husband goes to work while I stay home and roll socks into balls). No. It’s always been like an accidental phenomenon if I prepared a meal and served [...]
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