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As a child my very favorite things were art and craft supplies, journals and photo albums. This was, of course, in the era prior to our current scrapbooking culture (which I, supringly, never had any interest in. But I digress…). In an effort to instill the love for creative documentation of a young life into my daughter, we created a memory board for her today.

She would have enjoyed the project more, I suspect, had she been able to help. A pile of nails and tacks and a hammer and mommy’s overwhelming need to have the fabric stretched perfectly evenly was not conducive to a group project with a four year old. But she was a great couchside cheerleader!

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Sometimes a series of images just needs no explanation. I’ll give a little anyway. This was my first foray into homemade pasta. No machine. Just me, my hands, a rolling pin and a pizza cutter. To say that I felt like a handcrafting, homegrown, goddess-filled genius would be an understatement for sure.
The dish was amazing. Sidney didn’t help. She played Plants vs. Zombies the whole time.

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Inspired by an ice cream parlor visit on The Travel Channel’s Bizzare Foods, Sidney and I made cornbread ice cream! I went simple for this recipe, choosing a Jiffy cornbread mix instead of going at it completely from scratch.
We first mixed up a batch of cornbread batter. We separated the batter in half, and cooked one half of it on the stovetop like a giant pancake, breaking it apart at the very end till it resembled scrambled eggs more than a pancake. The other half of the batter we mixed with a little bit of yogurt butter and cream and then added it to a basic vanilla ice cream recipe.
Once the ice cream was nearing completion, we dumped the cooked cornbread pieces through the open top of the ice cream machine.
Can a mother and teacher of young children say “Fuckin’ yum”?
I think I just did.
Next up on the ice cream docket: sesame!

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Our first Summer project was a yummy one! Chocolate covered pretzels!
We did have one mishap and a totally unexpected one at that! After successfully melting dark and white chocolate over a double-boiler, my dumb ass thought that adding a little heavy cream would create a beautiful, creamy and delectably smooth mixture. For reasons unknown to this unexperienced candy maker, the whole chocolate concoction became this thick, matte, unmeltable blob incapable of coating the pan itself, let alone our little pretzels.
So, with great regret…we got to do it again! Sans cream.

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I plan to do great things with my daughter this Summer. She begins Kindergarten next year and this is the last Summer before she is officially in the Education Rat Race! Lots of garden and kitchen and art project are in our three month future. I plan to chronicle our adventures here under a new section, The Summer of Kindergarten.

Below, my daughter, Sidney, rocking out at her preschool “graduation”.

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