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Weekends – more of the same
Another weekend, more of the same – knitting and granita. I made another batch of the mango granita This time, I remembered to take a picture (well, actually, Josh took the picture.) The original recipe is here – but this … Continue reading
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Flavor of the Week
I had every intention of coming home from yoga today, photographing a beautiful bowl of this granita, then thoroughly enjoying myself while I ate it. Unfortunately, we ate it all last night Even though I can’t share pictures, I can … Continue reading
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Weekends – Good food and good knitting
We had such a good long weekend this past weekend – we didn’t really do anything but relax, and it was perfect. This weekend was insanely hot – and I already am uncertain about how I’ll survive this summer. I … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Josh!
Yesterday was my other sweet baby boy’s birthday – Josh turned 30! We had most of our celebration on Saturday – we went out to eat and I forced him to open his presents from me. I totally suck at … Continue reading
Weekends – FO
There’s been a serious lack of knitting around here since Poppy popped into our lives, but I thought I would distract you with this delicious blackberry crisp I made over the weekend. See, you forgot all about the knitting already.
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Tim and Martha would be proud…
Despite the lack of pie pans, I took Tim Gunn’s words to heart and “made it work.” I give you Pumpkin pie in a springform pan and Pecan pie in a loaf pan. Unorthodox perhaps, but it worked and still … Continue reading
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Reason #78 to hate the holidays…
When you were a child, you didn’t realize all this stuff was actually work! There’s nothing worse than having all your pie stuff ready to go, only to realize, you have no pie pans. And you refuse to make one … Continue reading
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How we spent Halloween
No trick or treaters showed up at our door last night, but that was pretty much expected. So we spent Halloween decorating sugar cookies instead. Now that I think about it, this was the first time we’ve ever made cookies … Continue reading
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Fall, Day 6
And so our little fall tour of the house ends in the kitchen. Which, except for a few fall themed dishtowels, doesn’t get very much fall decor. What the kitchen does get though, is wonderful fall dishes. Like Pasta with … Continue reading
Fall has come (Part 2)
What a difference a few days can make! This weekend has been really very nice – it still gets hot during the day but is cooling off enough at night to make one feel that fall is around the corner. … Continue reading
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