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Things 2014 – Week 6
Things: Life This being the South, our schizophrenic weather provided for days in the high 50s and lows in the 30s and 40s this past week. We had some truly gorgeous days with bright blue skies and...
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Meal Planning Monday – 2014 Week 7
I stuck to last weeks meal plan 100%. We had plenty of leftovers for the days designated, plus to carry us over during the weekend. It’s the first week that we’ve made it 100% and I’m pretty happy...
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Spanakopita Pie
The February Daring Cooks’ Challenge was hosted by Audax of Audax Artifex. The challenge brought us to Greece with a delicious, flaky spanakopita – a spinach pie in a phyllo pastry shell. I haven’t...
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Things 2014 – Week 7
Things: Life Well we survived a second week of weather insanity here in the ATL. This time everyone was more prepared and most people stayed home Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Where I love we got...
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Meal Planning Monday – 2014 Week 8
Week 2 of adhering to the previous weeksl meal plan 100%. Whoo! Even with the weather last week, we stuck with it. It really helps that I plan on Sunday and then shop either Sunday or Monday. Even so,...
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Meal Planning Monday – 2014 Week 9
I am dreadfully behind on posting now. I had gotten into a good rhythm and I actually do have many draft going and photos almost ready to post … and then the plague struck. Two weeks ago Z was sick...
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Things 2014 – Week 9
Things: Life The last 2 weeks have been crazy. I’ve been ill. Work has been super busy. Z has been dealing with work crisis. I feel like I’m spinning in circles and getting nothing done. The cabinets...
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Meal Planning Monday – 2014 Week 10
The meal plan for last week stayed pretty consistent and on track, although Friday night I didn’t feel well and wound up skipping dinner entirely, so no meatloaf this week. I am still 100% on track...
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Things: Life Things: Books & Movies & TV I finished the whole Divergent series this week. I enjoyed it, although the last book in the series seemed somewhat formulaic. Unlike a lot of...
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Southern Style Pinto Beans (& Ham)
In the part of the South I come from, one of the most traditional, Southern dishes you can make is pinto beans – with or without ham. It’s a dish made out of leftovers – some ham, maybe a little...
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Things 2014 – Week 13
Things: Life I’ve been working slowly but steadily on the dining room / office project (inspired by Thrifty Decor Chick’s built-ins). The cats are, of course, insisting on supervising every step of...
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Meal Planning Monday – 2014 Week 14
I made the above tortellini & broccoli salad for dinner over the weekend and it was delicious. And yes I am going to blog it, along with about a dozen other posts that I have lined up. Leslie...
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Oven Baked Avocado “Fries”
I have an avocado issue. Specifically I have an avocado ripening issue. For some reason avocados go from rock hard to overripe in my house faster than I can blink. I keep thinking it’s a fluke, but it...
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Southwestern Bean & Corn Salad
I hesitate to say that winter is actually, finally over here; historically we’ve had freezes and even snow and ice as late as April 25th in the ATL. But the last few days have been gorgeous and sunny...
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Things 2014 – Week 14
Things: Life It was a nice, overcast cool spring weekend, so I took a break from the living room / office project to take a stab at the left half of my front garden (I posted some about it last fall)....
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Corned Beef Hash
So I used to think that I didn’t like corned beef. I suspect that’s because my biggest exposure to it had been the canned version when we lived overseas – weirdly textured and overly spiced. Sort of...
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Things 2014 – for many missed weeks
Wow have the last few weeks been a wild ride. To talk about everything that has happened would take up way too much time and way too many posts, so we’re just going to skip to the present. Work has...
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Grilling Fever
As I mentioned in my most recent Things post, I recently bought a kamado style grill. It’s been quite the adventure and learning experience. For one, up until recently H was in charge of all things...
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Homemade Barbecue Sauce
I’m a Texas girl by birth and mostly by upbringing, and like any good Texas girl, I do love barbecue. Real barbecue. And what, you ask, do I mean by *real* barbecue? Well, a lot of people use...
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Kamado cooking – notes from a beginner, part 1
Last night on Facebook, my friend Lindsey told me that she had used my kamado cooking photos to help convince her husband that a kamado grill was the way to go. Then she asked me for suggestions and...
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