Weekly Gourmet

Today is Friday. How many muffins are TOO MANY muffins to eat in one morning? Well let's see, considering the amount of batter I licked out of the bowl, like a dog, and the number of muffins I "taste-tested" before serving them to my very worldly and discerning guests of my preschooler, and my parents...I'm gonna go with "However many I ate." My worldly, discerning preschooler is a lover of lemon blueberry anything, so even though it's a February cold snap, I made him lemon blueberry muffins in honor of...wait for it...his half birthday. Because we celebrate whatever over here. Half birthdays included. This week I almost bought my kids smoothies because they got haircuts. Perhaps I go too far with the sugar celebrations of nothing, but a half birthday is like a real thing. He's four and-a-half, and that's the last of the baby ages ever! : ( These muffins were moist and sour and lip-smackin' sweet. But not sweet enough for Luca, who threw hims...

Today is Saturday. I think mainly just to annoy me with his perfectness, my husband makes pancakes from scratch most Saturday mornings. He just couldn’t let cooking be my thing, could he? I can’t stay mad though because his cakes are so fluffy and delicious. But this particular Saturday he slept in longer than I needed to and, I am in my new "I have a food blog so I need to make some food” mode so I made the pancakes. Since I can’t compete with his, I had to resort to making sourdough pancakes. I get that not everyone has a starter. During the quarantine I held out for a long time making regular old banana bread, but at some point, I jumped on the sourdough bandwagon. I murdered the first starter gifted from a neighbor, but when my best friend gave me one, I was determined to make it work. So now we eat even more carbs- yaay. I haven’t found a lot of recipes with which to use my leftover starter – they all seem to require more leftover than my little guy can muster up each w...