Well, here I am. I’ve come to the desert (and wine country) to be with my family. When new additions arrive, it is familial obligation to congregate. Not that I didn’t want to. Who doesn’t want to meet squishy faced new comers to our lovely planet? I love babies, in all their new baby smell, […]
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I love pasta. I love it’s heartiness, it’s simplicity, the many wonderful shapes it comes in. What I don’t love is the sheer amount of calories involved in a typical serving. It’s enormous, it’s ridiculous, it’s really a shame. When I was a kid (Mom, Dad, this is not a criticism, merely a fact.), when
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Breakfast for dinner. Whoever thought of such a wonderful concept has garnered my praise for years. Egss are extremely underrated in my opinion, if only for the fact that people have very limiting ideas of what to do with them. Toad in the Hole, scrambled, fried, sunny side up, boiled soft or hard, etc. There
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Sometimes, you just feel like having a burger. I love burgers, all of them, in any incarnation. Beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, portobello, sometimes even veggie patties. I don’ t know what it is about burgers, they just seem to have universal appeal. Who doesn’t like sinking their teeth into a perfectly crusty bun, slathered in
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Sometimes I set out to make one thing, and I end up making a completely different beast. This is just one of those times. This weekend, I set out to make a delicious Manhattan clam chowder. As a child, when traveling on the widely despised BC Ferries in order to leave this rock, I would
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If there is one thing about the cooler weather that I, inexplicably, love, it is the fact that it’s damp, cold chutzpah sends me fleeing into the house. Or should I say, truthfully, that I cower in a ball on the couch, wrapped in layers of warm fabric (perhaps a comfy Snuggie?), fire blazing, purposefully
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My parents are retired. They are in their early fifties. They live in Mexico for 6 months. Are you jealous yet? I know I am. Every year when they pack up the RV (not that they have much to pack, as they live in it year round), and head back down the Baja, I have
The October 2009 Daring Cooks’ challenge was brought to us by Jaden of the blog Steamy Kitchen. The recipes are from her new cookbook, The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook. Welcome to my very first attempt at a Daring Cook’s Challenge! Although I joined a couple of months ago, we were so busy with child care and
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When I started this blog, is was merely to be a way for me to motivate myself to get out of a food rut I’d been wallowing in for a year. The moment our son was born, my appreciation and knowledge of fine cuisine, went out the window alongside my pert, youthful breasts and late
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I’ll be the first one to admit that I’m not a big fan of cold weather. Which is strange really. I’m one of those women who needs it to be cool to sleep (you know the ones. The husband wants it to be warm, but the wife doesn’t. Someone always suffers. Well, it isn’t me).
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