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More Honeymoons-with-Recipes
Ten honeymoons in ten days, hoo boy! I’ve just written and posted the last of them for The Rocky Road of Love blog. While the honeymoons are pretend, every one of these places really exist and really...
View ArticleChickpea and Spinach Tapas or Salad
Makes 4-6 servings; 10 minutes to prepare. 10-12 ounce bag fresh spinach leaves, rinsed 19-ounce can (2 cups) chickpeas (also called garbanzo beans), drained and rinsed 1 red bell pepper 1 tablespoon...
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International Woman’s Day: Toasting Pink
Last Satuday, March 8, was International Woman’s Day (IWD). One hundred years ago, in 1908, 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter working hours, better pay, and the right to...
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Top Ten Topics to Discuss at Lunch
Image: The Fine Art Company Our kids all go to the same high school, and we meet for lunch once a week at the Gourmet Market Café. That is, those of us who can get away from work that week do so....
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Spinach just wouldn’t be as funny
Image by Bob Janes, with permission I’m still uploading my flood photos, but want to point out that even when we were being evacuated from our hotel and helping build sandbag levees and watching our...
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Why Cupcakes?
Creative Commons image by bookgrl We have a new cupcake shop in our neighborhood. I am no cave-dweller: I understand that shops selling cupcakes are the new thing, very trendy and urban-chic, which...
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Cupcake competition
Following our disappointing venture to Local Cupcake Shop No. 1 earlier in the week, my 12 yr. old daughter and I decided to pursue Deb’s suggestion and check out Local Cupcake Shop No. 2 today....
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Cupcakes From Another Planet
Photo: Fine Furious Life Now here’s something different: Meatloaf cupcakes with mashed potato frosting. Michele over on Fine Furious Life whipped them up for us, and we have at least one independent...
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Summer Potluck for Monday, with Blackberries
Last year, it was a terrific party. The fireflies came out after we’d done picking berries, and we ate and talked and sat around until we filled the country farm house and sun porch and spilled out...
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Christmas in July: Sugarplums
Today is Clement C. Moore’s birthday. The “Night before Christmas” guy? And you were just wondering what a “sugarplum” was. Come on, I know you were. And I was eventually going to tell you about the...
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