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I read somewhere that whey makes an excellent liquid in soup, in place of water or broth. Sounds like a good idea to me, especially in something you would enjoy tasting a bit cheezy. Though again, I have no clue about whey. Never made cheese. Now I want to!

Oh whatever! I don't mean to be the word police. You can say whatever you want about Tony... it's your right! I just don't like people making the assumptions about me, you know? Like, my wife can say "Scott, that's STUPID" and she's right, but if someone else says it's stupid, I'm all "HEY...

me&thegals - Ugh! I hate the "babysitting" thing. Oooh ooh ooh, here's another one. Any time she's wearing bright colored clothing or her fun mismatched socks that a friend bought us, everyone says things like, "Well, DADDY must have dressed you today..." As if moms can't put silly clothes...

How about something like twice-baked winter squash (or pumpkin)? I had something like that once and it was awesome. I don't have a recipe (but I bet you could find one). Basically, the squash was chopped in half the long way (to be pretty), baked until tender, then the flesh was scooped out...

Can you make ricotta from it? I've never done anything of the sort, but I've heard that's what you do with leftover whey from cheesemaking. Of course, I know nothing. I wasn't here! Forget you saw me! ;)

yaaaay! congrats on the cheese! I'll have to give something like that a go some time. Sounds a bit frustrating, but also like a lot of fun, messing with curds and all.

I eat meat (and anything else edible) now, but I lived in a vegan/vegetarian co-op in college, and I was one of only TWO people in the house with any idea how to cook, so I learned real fast how to get creative with ingredients, how to make dinner out of the 4 things left in your cupboards, how...

If by "shining example on a hill" and "pioneer," you mean "guy who knows how to eat leftovers with one hand and tickle an upside-down baby with the other, all while ignoring ringing phones," then I'm guilty as charged. I've written the editors a couple of times, but you're right... I should be...

Never thought about the hunting magazines, but good point! I guess the part that really irks me is that there are ENDLESS articles about "how can I get my husband more involved?" and "why does my husband always make ME decide on baby stuff?" But then the same magazines that talk about how to...

Thanks for this, Zenbirder... good to know a bit about you. That sounds like me and my wife a bit. I'm a half-full kind of guy, and she's sometimes a half-empty type. Gives us a lot of material. Of course, she's the sort of half-empty type who fights as hard as she can to fill the glass the...

Baby Rant part 2: I can't stand all the "MOM" stuff everywhere. I mean, obviously moms are awesome. So are dads. But everything parenting is marketed for moms only, ignoring half of the parents out there. For starters: 1. "Parenting" magazine. Their slogan is something like "for moms who...

Q_A: Holding a baby too much is a ridiculous thing to say! That would be like being "too happy!" The more you can hold a baby, the better! Also, I think you may not care about such things as much as I do, but all the latest studies and research say that little babies co-sleeping in the same...

I want to replace all my bulbs with CFLs now! I've done some of them, but many of the light fixtures in this house require regular-shaped bulbs to hold the fixture in. Boo. I do have LED nightlights in the hallways and the baby's room to see at night though, and that's pretty excellent...

As for me, I just let the baby crawl (well, she doesn't quite crawl, she drags herself around on her belly) wherever she wants so long as she doesn't do anything dangerous. She plays with shoes, then wriggles into the next room to knock over a box of baby socks and roll around in them... no...

The "back to sleep" campaign to get babies to sleep on their backs does seem totally counterintuitive, but actually is a great example of a very effective government program. Since they introduced the "back to sleep" notion, SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) deaths have decreased by 50%...

Hahahaha!! wind farts wind farts! Hey, on a random note, I now get the cabin part after seeing your beautiful cabin. How about the Morel part? Do you forage for morels? Or some other clever reason I can't think of? Every time I see your name, I think... mmmmmmmm, I wish it was morel season...

She goes to sleep just fine... the problem is, she wakes up 25 minutes later crying. I would think it's a "she can't soothe herself to sleep" problem, except at night she's awesome at it. She sleeps a good 12-13 hours most nights, only waking up maybe once for a bottle. Just the naps... she...

Things I did right today: Gave my baby some homemade applesauce from local organic apples a nearby farmer gifted us. Ate some bread I made yesterday, along with some tasty cabbage/potato/onion soup I made a big batch of 2 days ago. Did a lot of laundry. Got my whole family flu shots in...

Does watching the 3 endlessly energetic children next door wrestle each other in their front lawn count as nature watching? If not, there's also a stray cat who hangs out on our roof, jumping off periodically to attack squirrels. That's fun to watch too. Though not quite as much fun as two...

I would probably blame the new bread recipe and not the gluten. Gluten is just stretchy protein bits, so if it was "bad," it would just be like adding nothing at all, it wouldn't mess anything else up. I could be wrong, depending on the specifics, but I can't see how adding gluten would mess...