Tomatilla!

It’s time to break out the ramen noodle idea again. The girls want me to write a ramen noodle cookbook where every recipe has ramen noodles as a foundation. So I’m going to try to…

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Halloween is almost here so tonight was the night to sit down with the girls and carve pumpkins. Jan and I stayed with straightforward designs although hers is very avant garde and mine is very…

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Nothing to do with food for once! The first two (and smallest) parts of the grand fencing project are almost done. The front fence on the right of our house is up but we need…

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Writing that is…NaNoWriMo is almost upon us. Check out my NaNoWriMo site, The Shooting Match.

I spent Saturday on a real tear. First was Grace’s soccer game. Our first loss. No real surprise there – bound to lose one after all. But I was annoyed that the other team set…

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Three magic ingredients (and two more at are less important) that conjure up the perfect comfort food in my family. We started making this when the kids were just old enough to eat solid food…

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Although I tend to write about MY cooking and ignore everybody else’s, I am not in fact the ONLY person in my household to do any cooking, although I do do the majority of it.…

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What a weekend! We had a busy Saturday. The kids’ soccer team kept up its string of games without loss. We had a fancy dinner cooked by a chef who is thinking about writing a…

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Youch! Maybe I should have been a contractor. After all, I DO tend to be sloppy, slow to finish and think I can do just about anything. Anyway, I am putting up new fencing all…

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It’s been a strange week. I’ve been negotiating about the value of my now-totaled Camry. It’s still drivable, but since you can’t open the rear passenger doors any more and you can’t close the trunk…

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