Delightful Desserts — For Passover!

It's nearly that time of year again: Pesach (also known as Passover), when the Jewish people celebrate the Exodus from Egypt and the birth of the nation of Israel. In observance of this most important holiday, we refrain from eating many every-day foods, especially grains. This makes desserts kind of tough, but as I saw last night, definitely not impossible!

More About Spring

We've had record-breaking weather for more than a week now. The temperatures have been in the high-70's to mid-80's and it feels more like summer than spring. We've even broken the record for the hottest day in March ever, in Detroit.

Seeing Green

In celebration of St. Patrick's Day I bring you: GREEN! (and some blue and red and...)

We're Not In Kansas California Anymore

Thursday, March 15 started out as a pretty normal day, though we woke up to the first truly humid day of the season: 85% humidity. Ew. It was also pretty warm, in the high 70's, but that seemed to have become the pattern over the last few days.

Calm before the storm and a robin.

Spring Has Sprung

When we first came to Ann Arbor everyone told us that winter would begin at the end of October and continue through to the end of April. We have not found that to be true this season, though, everyone assured us that this has been an unusually light winter. In any case, the birds have returned and the flowers are blooming, so we're pretty sure Spring has arrived.

Purim From Scratch

On Wednesday night we began the celebration of the Jewish holiday, Purim.