I recently offered to make my every-two-weeks dinner and tea into a floor event in Morewood Gardens (with funding from my RA!) instead of my weekly teas from last year. I decided to call them Stone Soup Suppers. For those unfamiliar with the fairy-tale, here’s the best version I could find. Basically, I will plan […]

ok, totally in a different vein, here is my second to last tea party at CMU for Spring 2008 (my first year). Picture by Christie Ibaraki Using a recipe from Ice Cream Treats for Fudge Sauce, a box cake, a kosher box cake and a full box of lacies (super chocolate and nutty cookies) I […]

Here is the offending container. It still smelled of mildew after three hard washings (I have reason to believe the friend I lent it to left cookie crumbs sitting in it for a month before washing it). Frustrated, I remembered something my mother told me about sunlight being a purifying agent and so I let […]

From New Orleans to Moscow, the celebration at the Spring Equinox, harbinger for Chrisians of the beginning of Lent, pancake parties shook the world. My theory is that pancakes include all of the things which start to run low in February and which Lent asks people to use less of: fat, sugar, preserves, suggary condiments […]

So the information in my post on How To Run A Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper was used by my wonderful parents to, well, Run A Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper at St Andrews. Here are the pictures they took. Here are the notes from how that went: While it is still fresh in my mind, here […]

UPDATE 02/2010: Please see this post for an updated and more concise version of this guide. // This will be a bit different from my other How Tos. This is based on the work I did to run the Pancake supper for my parent’s old church. Basic stats on this outline are: dinner for 50 […]