2006 Archives
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Oh, I’m having so much FUN cooking for Thanksgiving! I decided to start today – tomorrow Nathan is home from school and we’ll be busy. The turkey is a-brining (left), the cranberries are a-popping (or popped, as it were, below), the gravy base is, uh, a-cooling. And the stuffing, ohhh, how I lurve stuffing. I…
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How far are you willing to go for Perfect Turkey? By perfect I mean crisp, browned skin over juicy, flavorful breast meat. I’m willing to go pretty far, although I draw the line at roasting the turkey breast-side down (so the breast collects juices) and then flipping the buttery, 14-18 lb, 350-degree bird over to…
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It should be spelled Bore-at, not Borat. Yawnsville! Why the hell all the buzz on this movie? I found it neither offensive nor funny, just long, boring, and really rather sad. I’m (clearly) no prude and am in fact a big fan of the butt-fart-poop joke genre as well as truly stupid, crude, slapstick humor…
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Um, you know what’s wrong with this party pic? Yes, you guessed it…no one is in it! Lonely looking party, huh? Ack, I forgot to take pictures of all my lovely neighbors while they were here – too busy chatting, drinking wine, and eating the tasty tasties everyone brought – so, uh, here’s the after-party….
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Merry Chr…NO! I’m not going there quite yet. I did replace our seriously dead petunias with pine bough arrangements today, but that’s as far as I’m going for now, don’t worry. (OK, I did also toss slimy, squirrel-gutted pumpkins – that was a pretty combo, dead petunias and moldy pumpkins – but retiring stale Halloween…
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I’m back. Fully recovered. No more jet lag. Whew! I was pretty dorksville last week, falling asleep at dinner time, waking up refreshed at 3 a.m. I completely forgot about Nathan’s parent-teacher conference on Friday morning (even though I’d been up for hours). Ugh. So it feels good – as in less embarrassing – to…
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Reading a book in front of a roaring fire, while sipping a spot of hot tea, after a brisk walk around the neighborhood, with chicken stock simmering on the back of the stove…ahhhhh, I had a damn nice weekend. NICE! I turned the stock into a tortellini soup, with leeks, garlic, and carrots, garnished with…
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Mmmmeatballs. Love ’em. I made up this batch today, most of which I’ll freeze for quick, healthy protein when I need it. Meatballs – healthy? Yes, because these are baked turkey-bulgur meatballs. OMG that sounds revolting, seeing it written that way, but they’re actually absolutely delicious – tender and garlicky – and I figure about…
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I’ll call this Cheater’s Coconut Cake. I baked it for John’s office’s United Way fundraiser – I bake one or two cakes each year. And I usually do a pretty major scratch cake. But this time I just thought, hey, coconut cake sounds great, and it’s so easy to make…using a mix. Gasp! No! And…
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Uh, let me take a giant step back here and say, the oats are no longer being felt. All that nauseatingly chipper, oh, I feel so great! We did so much in two days! (See below.) CRASH. I completely died out late Monday afternoon and have yet to fully recover. Yes indeed, I am almost…
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