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Where Have All the Flours Gone?
The calendar boldly states that Autumn is in full blast. The orange of pumpkins is splashed all around me, at supermarkets, farmers markets, in front of the stores, on tresholds and in yards. But I...
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The Night We Came Home
It was already dark when Husband picked me and the girls up at the Cleveland International Airport after our summer vacation in Serbia, and drove us to our new house in the western suburb of...
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Roll Playing
One of these days, when my time off work rolls around, I will pack my beach bag with a book, sunscreen lotion, a bamboo beach mat, and a beach towel. I’ll hang the bag on the handle-bar of my shiny,...
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“And summer’s lease hath all too short a date…”
In the world of school children, June is like the ultimate Friday. You have to spend a part of it cramming for exams trying to make better grades, but you know that all that work is going to end soon...
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Wizardry
College Kritter is an obsessive creature and things presented in serial form appeal to her. She started reading Harry Potter, and inevitably dragged me into the process. I lagged behind, unwilling to...
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Fruited Plane
I have stopped counting the days before we leave for Serbia, and started counting the hours. My daytimer has a myriad of lists on different pages with most of the items checked or scratched off. I...
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The Pudding is Sometimes in the Proof
There was no kindergarten when I was growing up in Yugoslavia, and my first attempts at socializing started at the ripe age of five in preschool. While most of my classmates in senior grade were...
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Picadillo Circus
It’s been a few months that I did not participate in my favorite online culinary exchange Recipe Swaps. Oh, I was ambitious when I set sails for Serbia earlier in the summer, intending on reporting...
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Comparing Apples to Apples
I’ve heard the phrase “As American as baseball and apple pie” many times as a child, watching old black-and-white American movies and enjoying translated comics that ended up in  Politikin...
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Twitter Party: Lentil and Bulgur Pilaf with Caramelized Onions for Cookbook...
Photo by my 3G iPhone. No comment. I have always wondered how celebrity chefs on TV manage to pull off their seemingly easy cooking demonstrations, having to consider the time and space limitations,...
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