Month: November 2003

Well – sometimes it seems like it. But actually this may have been the longest time since I last blogged. OK – I am going to miss out on winning NaNoWriMo. I have done 16,000…

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Whew – big fortnight coming up. First I have until Wed night to get through this big horrible work project. Then Thurs and Friday is Thanksgiving. Then Saturday drive back down fom Sea Ranch where…

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Big dinner tonight. Lots of people over and a lot of rather ambitious food. I did the baked chicken thing since there were so many kids. I also made spinach ricotta gnocci from Marcella Hazan’s…

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It has been a while since I wrote anything here, so it’s time I did. I can’t even remember the food issues that have come up since I last wrote. I know I’ve done some…

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OK – Grace said this was the best chicken she had ever eaten. I used chicken legs but you can use any cut up parts. Best baked/fried chicken First get about a quarter of a…

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Glub. We ate too much yesterday. Today was a quiet day. Grace wrote or dictated 5000 words. I wrote about 300. (Well, so far). We ate leftovers – lots of leftovers. Cleaned the house, wrote,…

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Yesterday was more than a little full. It started with lots and lots of house cleaning. Jan and I were going out to the theatre with friends and they were coming to dinner beforehand for…

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For breakfast yesterday. Corn Fritters We had left over frozen sweetcorn, so I just made a pancake batter with a little baking powder added and made it a little thick and then stirred in all…

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So in the midst of all our usual weekend insanity (soccer, birthday parties, novel writing, work around the house, etc.) we also had some friends come to dinner. I made a nice pilaf from the…

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I thought I’d publish the official first words of my NaNoWriMo novel right here. You can find out more about it at its very own site, The Shooting Match. Anyway, here’s the first few hundred…

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