Author Archives: Andrea Middleton

Currently at Reddit, I spent 10 years as a community organizer on the WordPress open source project. I'm also an avid reader, wine enthusiast, and parent of two.

Maid Service

Baxter’s hit the stage of handing things to people all the time. It’s almost as if, at a certain developmental point, a child looks around and thinks, “This place is a mess!” And starts helping you tidy up, by giving you things to put away.

This stage of recognizing a mess passes pretty quickly, of course. Seeing mom and dad as the best vehicle for cleanliness sticks.

Just like Mom used to make

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I got a wild hair this morning and decided to make a Dutch baby for breakfast. My mom used to make this for special occasion breakfasts when I was a kid, and I loved how it came out of the oven all puffy and then settle down into eggy-custardy pancakey deliciousness.

We’re out of frozen blueberries, which I’d normally use to make a fruit compote… So I took our one remaining apple, cored & peeled it, and cooked it in butter & brown sugar until it made a caramel. A little salt and cinnamon and presto! Sooooo good.

I cooked this one a bit too long, but it was still fantastic! Amelia ate most of hers, and Bax enjoyed his bits too. This is a good breakfast-for-dinner company-for -brunch dish, too: one fourth of a cup of flour and warm milk for each egg, and you mix it all in the blender so cleanup is easy. 5 minutes of prep, bake for 20 min, and you can make the fruit topping while it bakes. Here’s the recipe I used. Dutch baby ftw!!