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recipes
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food, homemaking madness, motherhood, recipes
“Isn’t this what you think about when you don’t have anything else to think about?”
02.23.12 | Permalink | 11 CommentsSunday night we went over to my parents’ after church, for dinner and sleeping over and sledding in the snow the next day. It is at my mother’s table in my father’s house that I get upset and angry enough to cry over — sometimes the injustices in the world, yes, but too often — [...]
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food, holidays, recipes
Kiss me, I’m a river in Ireland!
03.17.11 | Permalink | 4 CommentsThis morning I told Callie that St. Patrick was the missionary who took Christianity to Ireland. I have no idea if that’s entirely true, and I didn’t have four hours to spend on Wikipedia, not that it would take that long to look up, but when you add in the seventeen other things I need [...]
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food, recipes
I will figure this out before I die, or . . . not
02.24.11 | Permalink | 19 CommentsI have tried several different things to solve the problem of “What’s for dinner?” I’ve tried making elaborate menus and I’ve tried buying what’s in season and experimenting. I wish I had what it takes (the flexibility, the commitment, the close-by foodie friends, and the desire to interact that much with said hypothetical friends) to [...]
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food, money, recipes
What’s for dinner
03.21.10 | Permalink | 8 CommentsI’ve finally gotten in the habit of shopping once a week around a meal plan. And now, of course, I can’t imagine how I managed not to go crazy before, running to the store almost every day for just one or two things that always turned into fifty dollars worth of crackers and “good deals” [...]
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health, recipes
In Lieu of Flowers
10.19.09 | Permalink | 8 CommentsWe drove Mr. Bennet (I’ll call him something respectful just in case anything happens) to the airport this morning for his celebrity appearance in Texas. (“Celebrity appearance” is technical writer humor for “waste two vacations days and pay half your hotel fee for the dubious honor of speaking to your fellow technical writers.”) On the [...]
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recipes
Confessions of a third-rate gift giver
02.11.09 | Permalink | 19 CommentsI’m sure I’d benefit from some sort of program or therapy, but between the movie-popcorn-binging, the bouts of irrational rage, the obsession with True Beauty, and the Mountain Dew habit I have kicked one time less than I have relapsed, it’s hard to know where to start. Two Saturdays ago, late in the afternoon, Dick [...]
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recipes
Pioneer Woman Will Sigh
11.11.08 | Permalink | 27 CommentsIn case you were on the edge of your seat as to whether the Pioneer Woman’s cake balls are any good, I’ll cut to the chase: Fair-to-Middling, with (just) a Hint of Creativity. I was hoping they’d be the answer to my competitive Christmas baking needs: cheap, easy, and STUNNING, but, unfortunately, they were cheap-ish, [...]
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