July « 2009 « Butterscotch Sundae

The Butterscotch League

  • MrPlayfair (Tom)
  • The Crimson Cats (Rockford)
  • Dillon Lions (Nichole)
  • Howling Wolf (Mark)
  • GoDawgs! (Chris)
  • Blue Moo (Genia)
  • Hippowdon (Sam, I think)
  • Honolulu Blue (Perry Mason)

I'm updating the fantasy college football rankings by hand every week. You know what would be awesome, Yahoo? A widget that would do this automatically.

In brief

This Day Last Year

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Papa’s favorite ribs

A downer of a baking story, such as it is.

The July Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network.

I wanted to share a nice, long post all about the Milan Cookies (Milanos! Yum!) that my friend Amy and I made for the Daring Bakers

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Peteadoon's first haircut

Pete got tired of everyone calling him a hippie, so we took him to my cousin Tracy for a haircut. Now he looks like a proper little gentleman.

Delicious wit

Here’s a little bit of genius for your Monday: Threadcakes. In which people are making cakes inspired by Threadless T-shirts. Here’s my favorite.

Sticking to the standards

It’s been a good long while since I participated in Menu Plan Monday. Not that we haven’t been eating, mind you. I don’t know what happened to June, but we’ve been away from home for most of July and I just started cooking and planning again last week. And I did it again this week!

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On the road and hanging by a song

Picture it. The Colonial Inn. Saginaw, Michigan. Spring 1975.

My dad was 22. He was at a nearly empty bar with a girl. There was another couple on the other side of the room, and a trio of guys in the corner. One of the guys left for a moment, came back with a guitar and

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Summertime rolls

The kids have been having a great big fabulous time, and I’ve been reading lots of terrible (and some pretty good) fiction.* We miss Rockford, who is hard at work while we lounge about. Otherwise, though, all is well.

* “The Cross-Country Quilters,” “Blood Brothers,” “I Capture the Castle,” “The Chamber,” “The Hollow” and “Three Bags

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FYI

July is likely to be pretty quiet around here. Just so you know. Most probably back by August.

Updated to add: Everything’s fine! We’re just out and about & I won’t have all that much time for writing.