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Weekend Getaway
I’m sitting here looking out over the snow (yes, we had a snow day today) and thinking about the last time I sat looking out over the snow. It was two days ago, at the end of an incredibly relaxing...
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We’re Home and It’s Hot, Spicy, and Pickled
Well, we’ve made it. Our cross-country road trip taking 4 days and 3295.2 miles, reaching record-breaking temperatures across the desert (122 degrees – are you kidding me?), hastily sneaking the pup...
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A Platter of Veg
I have to say, I am really missing our Wintergreen Farms CSA basket from Oregon. The beautiful greens of the Oregon summer and fall are nowhere to be seen at this point in the Florida growing season,...
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What Does the Sig Say?
Recently our household has turned a little cartoonish. But in a good way. There are no anvils dropping out of the sky, and Tom and Jerry aren’t making appearances, but I am having long conversations...
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Happy 100th!
Blogging is a strange avenue of expression. It is an open can-of-worms of opinions, expressions, and not at all approved, edited, or formatted by any professional publisher. In my case, recipes are...
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I’m So Fancy
“I’m So Fancy,” by Iggy Azalea has been stuck in my head for months now. It’s catchy, Jimmy Fallon did an excellent lip-sync of it, but it’s mostly lodged in my brain because I have taken to singing it...
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Ten Apples Up On Top
While the weather is just starting to cool down out here on the Florida/Georgia border (meaning, it’s 85 degrees with a breeze and a drizzle), it is strangely starting to feel like autumn. Every once...
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Paleo 101
I like to entertain. Actually, when filing out the eHarmony personality profile years ago, “likes to entertain” was one of the things that found Rob and I compatible. In Oregon, with the close...
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Turkey Day Trials 2014
While October seemed to have sluggishly ambled by, November has been no joke – it’s already half-way through the month and only a week and a half away from the biggest foodie day of the year. Already,...
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Broccoli Slaw
Lately, in our CSA farm basket, we have been receiving the most fantastic broccoli I’ve ever tasted. The hearty green grows well here in north Florida; that is if you don’t get any crazy spurts of...
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How to Explain Cooking
Every year, without fail, the exact same thing happens the first day in Kindergarten: “Who knows the sound the ‘M’ makes?” “I do, I do…mmmmmmmmm.” I cringe as 18...
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Beet Down – A New Way to do Beets
I’ve moved a lot, both growing up and now in my adult years. More than occasionally I get the, “How do you do that?” round of questioning, mostly from people that consider a significant move an...
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Hurricane Salad
Right now, leaves are rustling due to a nice, cool, dry breeze, the windows are open in my always-ever-locked house, and I am enjoying what feels like the very first taste of autumn. When I walk...
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Politics, Holidays, and Artichoke Dip
Holy cow. What a whirlwind. We’ve been in November for 9 days. And it’s been nuts. Let’s just look at this empirically, shall we? With the start of November, first there was the take down of...
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Turkey Day Trials 2016
Here we go again, folks! It’s Turkey Day Trials, 2016! I’m going to invite the teacher to the blog for a moment and grace all of you with a brief history of the tradition. Turkey Day Trials dates all...
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