We have enough interest that the Peep Show will go on! It will be smaller than previous years, but that is okay. :)
All-O-ver, Ol-i-vore . . . we're learning that Oliver's name has some fun mispronunciations.
Also, ask him what is name is and this is what you'll hear: "My name is Oli . . . Oli . . . Oliv . . . Oli . . . I don't know."
Here I am at SFO. Again. What should have been a 40 minute layover has turned into a 5 hour layover with merely a possibility of getting on the red-eye at 10:30. Flying standby. And if I don't get on the standby flight . . . they tell me my next shot at JFK isn't for 24 hours. Yeah. So let's hope that doesn't happen. And if I don't get on standby, well, there's got to be another way home.
S: Oliver, Is Mom a child of God?
O: Yes!
S: No, Mom is a grown up!
The one night -- ever -- when Micah and I get to bed at 10:00 and could, feasibly, get 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep, Simon wakes up crying inexplicably at midnight and can't go back to sleep, Oliver falls out of bed, and we're all out a couple of hours of sleep. Clearly we need to never try to go to to bed early. It's the only way to get a good night's sleep around here.
CookieFest 2009 is not going to happen. At least not on its previous scale. We decided it was impractical for us to make the normal amount of cookies and deliver them all over Brooklyn when we don’t have a car, and as much as we’d love to have 500 cookies lying around the apartment for us to eat . . . oh, wait, no we wouldn’t. Way too much sugar. So we decided to go a different route, and last night we stayed up until 1:00 testing this cracker recipe. We kind of forgot to put the sea salt on before baking, so we drizzled some olive oil on after and then sprinkled the sea salt. They turned out pretty well, and, better yet, they were beyond easy. Serve it up with some festive-looking marinated goat cheese and I think you have yourself a winning alternative to cookies. Agreed?
I’m thinking about experimenting with more cracker recipes, so if you happen to know of any good ones, do tell.
Oh agreed for sure- way to go Heiselts!
You guys are so awesome. Jon was going to send you a text about how awesome he thought you were for making your own crackers. Sadly we don't have a recipe, but you've piqued my curiosity! I just discovered a recipe for cheese ball that I really like!!