Over at The Cracked Kettle there’s a taste test going on. I’m willing to bet everyone has AT LEAST one friend who’s gotta live gluten-free. Holidays are a lousy time to have to avoid gluten. Thank goodness, then, there’s a quick-and-dirty way to make chocolatey holiday cookies that are safely gluten free that you can give to a soon-to-be-eternally-grateful friend. No one brings GF cookies to a party. Why not be the...

Yesterday, in anticipation of the upcoming release of What Would Madame Defarge Knit? our artiste extraordinairé created free holiday cards for you and yours to use this holiday season. You can view and download the goodies over at the Madame Defarge site. More goodies will be a-comin’ so keep checking back. Then, in my other guise as edumacator, I thought I’d share this with you…just in case you didn’t know from Bayeux...

As you may know, many things are afoot in Mama O Knits too Much-land—the book of knitting patterns coming out from Cooperative Press in February 2011, the online tutoring site, more and better patterns for sale, blog hops for the release of the new book, and a couple of things I can’t talk about yet. So while I’m sitting here in a cold, dark room (wearing my Cratchettes), wishing I were knitting but looking at the computer screen...

It is certainly possible you haven’t heard of Dr. Who. Is it also possible you heard of, watched, but didn’t understand the finer points of the show. I think Craig Ferguson will clear this all up for you. YouTube – Craig Ferguson – The lost “Dr. Who” cold open.. And more–this has now made me like Matt Smith. I am satisfied.

What can you do living gluten-free when it comes to holidays. A lot, actually. I’ll share my stunning success at Thanksgiving Stuffing shortly, but there’s a more dire topic at hand: Jelly Donuts! Even if you don’t celebrate the festival of lights, you probably know that Chanukah is a celebration surrounded by a puddle of oil—symbolic oil and cooking oil. Symbolically, historically, there was only enough clean oil left...