Grandma's Apple Brown Betty (Apple Crumble?) and a Year-End Review
It's been... quite a year. Has it felt that way for you too? It seems like everyone I know is chugging along chanting the same mantra: "let's just get this year over with!" Of course, I think we've done this the last few years, and the New Year has yet to bring something significantly better, but hope springs eternal, right? And I have the most comforting dish for you today for those days when hope betrays your trust. Sometimes after a break on the blog, I wonder if it's worth addressing that I've been gone. My statistics don't show that I have a lot of regular readers, and direct feedback suggests that my only readers are my close friends and family who already know what's been going on with me (and I suspect a lot of them, as much as I love them, quickly scroll through and give it a consolation like while thinking "tl;dr"). In getting this post ready, I've been beautifully surprised at how many apparently random views I'v...