A Young Wife’s Tale

Christmas 2009 was great! Christmas Eve morning, David and I slept in. I made smoothies for breakfast, and we had just settled on the couch to drink them and watch a Christmas movie when my mother called. The weather man was reporting that Dallas would have whiteout conditions by noon, and we needed to head to the suburb where both my parents and in-laws live so we wouldn’t have to drive on the freeway once the storm hit. David and I threw our clothes (some of mine dirty) in a suitcase, as well as all of our stuff to bake cookies, and two dogs since we were dog sitting for our friends.

1. Cook in a cast iron skillet to get more iron in your diet. 2. When adding milk or cream to a hot sauce cooking in a pan, do not dump it in cold with the hot ingredients. Add a little of the warm sauce to the cold dairy first, then start mixing the milk [...]