I am really getting sick of cold weather & cloudy wet days. Not the cheery kind of rainy days. The gloomy kind. ENOUGH!! So I’m dreaming of flowers, running through the sprinkler & having friends over for way more food than anyone can reasonable eat cooked on the grill. Granted, we tend to grill more [...]
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Though I was very much against the arrival of Fall, the Holiday season has somehow managed to sneak up on me already (which, was why I was against Fall in the first place). However, I’m taking it all in stride. The Christmas tree is up, lights are hung on the house, and I spent my [...]
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Friday evening, Big excitedly declared that tomorrow was Waffle Day!! Her teacher, Miss Jenny said so. (. . .thanks Miss Jenny. . . kidding) Since I LOVE waffles and we didn’t have any plans for the day, I readily agreed with her. Who am I to denounce Waffle Day, after all?? In honor of this [...]
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Traditions are a funny thing. Sometimes you don’t realize how unique a family tradition is until you get away from your family. So it is with peppernuts and me. Every year, RIGHT after Thanksgiving, my Grandma would start baking batches and batches of peppernuts. Growing up, I didn’t even really like them, but couldn’t resist [...]
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I must be more ready for fall than I’d like to admit because I have been craving soup for the last few weeks. So this weekend, I pulled out the giant stock pot and made some very yummy soup. If you make one soup this fall, this really should be it! It’s a slightly spicy [...]
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