The magnificent Jennifer Shaffer offered to host a Valentine’s dinner for our church, with a choice of three menus. Since we all know what an uber-cook she is, we took her up on it. I went by myself, since Charlie doesn’t like to eat out,…

Our #3 Daughter brought us some hugecumbers from one of her co-workers. A hugecumber is a cucumber that’s — ah, you’re way ahead of me — HUGE. We don’t have any cucumbers in our garden this year because turtles, so we were very glad to…

So I decided to make glazed carrots. They tasted good but they looked ugly. In fact, these were the ugliest carrots ever. Sad, Ugly Carrots What made them so darned UGLY? I didn’t think I put too much cornstarch in the glaze, but maybe I…