Archive for October, 2009

There’s no place like home

by Beth Shepherd - Pampers and Pakhlava
( October 26th, 2009 )

Down the lane
Rain pounds on the windshield of our rental car as we drive up the gravel road in Ingomar, Pennsylvania, just north by twenty minutes from Pittsburgh. The temperature outside is unseasonably cold and we hear that several inches of snow had fallen the week before our …

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Something old, something new

by Beth Shepherd - Pampers and Pakhlava
( October 19th, 2009 )

By Seattle standards the house Big Papa and I live in, aka Urban Cabin, is really old. It was built in 1898. Not many houses or buildings in Seattle are that much older. I grew up in a house built in the 1950s, however in the Syracuse area …

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Anoush

by Beth Shepherd - Pampers and Pakhlava
( October 14th, 2009 )

Anoush (pronounced “Ah-noosh”) means sweet in Armenian. The word is used in many ways, one of which is to toast to good health and prosperity, “Anoush…enjoy the sweet life.”

I tasted a bit of the sweet life this past Sunday when I signed myself up for the ‘Armenian Adventure’ cooking class …

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