Colin’s mother’s family has started holding their annual family reunion on Easter weekend. I really like the idea of helping the holiday to be special by getting together and connecting as a family. This year we’ve got fancy dinners and traditional Cuban food and an easter egg hunt and all kinds of fun planned. I’ve [...]
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Posted in Cooking, Food, Holidays on Dec 3rd, 2010
Some of you may not know that I spent several of my growing up years in Israel. My parents, thinking we’d be living there forever, sent my sisters and I to an Orthodox Jewish elementary school where we learned Hebrew by immersion. We also got some cultural broadening, all of which I appreciate more now [...]
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Posted in Cooking, Holidays, Kids on Sep 30th, 2010
Saturday will be Maggie’s 4th birthday! We’re having a Princess “lemonade party” (little girls’ version of a tea party) on Friday morning for her and we’ve been getting ready for it all morning. Colin started by cleaning up the family room and setting up Maggie’s Hello Kitty tent, which Heidi is more excited about than [...]
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Posted in Cooking, Cooking, Food on May 16th, 2009
Bethany just turned to me, as I was happily facing-book, going-daddy, and brainstorming about the evolution of ENFPConsulting, and said, “I’d like you to go onto my blog and write about How to Title Recipes.” And thus we are. Long before I read Seth Godin’s How to Title Stuff or Alex Witze’s SAA: How to [...]
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Posted in Food, Health on Jul 8th, 2008
Image via Wikipedia I fed my kids and myself waffles for dinner tonight. Not homemade waffles, which are superior to anything else in every way except prep time/effort. We ate Eggo waffles for dinner, with syrup on top. Not pure maple syrup, but a simple sugar syrup flavored with immitation maple flavoring that I made [...]
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Posted in Food on Jun 3rd, 2008
Okay, so there’s plenty to eat around here, just hardly anything my body is willing to let me eat this morning. Everything smells, and nothing smells good. Even the good things don’t smell good. When I’m pregnant my olfactory sense increases by a few factors and it’s pretty crazy. Those diapers I normally don’t notice [...]
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Posted in Food on Apr 30th, 2008
Image via Wikipedia Today, April 30th, is 31 cent scoop night at Baskin Robbins! Really! See their web page here if you don’t believe me. To honor the nation’s firefighters, selected Baskin Robbins stores sell small ice cream scoops for 31 cents tonight from 5pm to 10pm, and they donate $100,000 to the National Fallen [...]
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Posted in Food on Apr 15th, 2008
There have been multiple times since I’ve been married when we’ve had to primarily live off of our stored food supply. As a wedding present, someone (I’m sorry to say I don’t remember who) gave us the awesome gift of one month’s basic food storage. Included were things like cans of wheat, rice, macaroni noodles, [...]
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Posted in Cooking, Food, Things I Like on Apr 14th, 2008
Does anyone but me struggle with knowing what the names on cuts of meat mean? I bought a roast on sale the other day labeled “USDA Choice Chuck Beef English Roast.” What in the world….? I learned a while back that “Choice” is a United States Department of Agriculture grade of meat determined by how [...]
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Posted in Cooking, Food, Things I Like on Apr 14th, 2008
Does anyone but me struggle with knowing what the names on cuts of meat mean? I bought a roast on sale the other day labeled “USDA Choice Chuck Beef English Roast.” What in the world….? I learned a while back that “Choice” is a United States Department of Agriculture grade of meat determined by how [...]
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