by Heather Hambel Curley | Mar 24, 2013 | Food, Writing
As we once again brace for the Snow-pacalypse, I’ve officially gotten bored with editing. Yeah. I knew it would happen eventually. I think I’m overfamiliar with my book. My brain is like, “Yeah…I’ve read this before. And it pretty much...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Feb 19, 2013 | Food, Writing
I’m stressed this week. Already. But hey, I’ve been trying to set aside my eternal pessimist attitude and adopt a more optimistic “hey, there’s half a candy bar left!” kind of attitude. Let’s make this a “compliment...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Jan 21, 2013 | Food, Writing
So I decided to make jambalaya today. Actually I was going to make it yesterday, but due to an overwhelming amount of leftovers in the fridge, we decided to have what I like to call Wild Card Night. An eating free for all. Lots of food was consumed to make room for...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Jan 4, 2013 | Food, history, Writing
In my continuing effort to be historically accurate, I did some research on desserts popular in the 1860s. You know, for basically one sentence in my novel. I stumbled upon a cookbook from 1861, The Book of Household Management. “Well, perfect!” I said....
by Heather Hambel Curley | Dec 24, 2012 | Civil War, Food
Having survived the zombie Mayan apocalypse, or whatever it was that was supposed to happen, a girl’s thoughts turn to Christmas. And the fact it’s, well, tomorrow. The Hubs has a membership to ancestry.com, which started out as a trial membership that he...
by Heather Hambel Curley | Nov 25, 2012 | Food, Randomness, Writing
Well, poop. Back to reality tomorrow. Back to getting up early and working and going to bed early and less pie. Can we talk about pie for a moment? My mother made pecan pie for Thanksgiving. I’d never had it before and let me tell you. Life changing. I only ate...
