Pheasants are tasty
On Monday, while digging us out from two inches of snow that had somehow turned into a foot, my Patient Husband heard a crack. He looked up to see a pheasant fall to the ground at our garage doors. It…
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Kiddo#1 brings cookies to school
Blueraindrop noticed my offhand mention of my son giving a cookie to the rumored-to-be-mean teacher, so I’ll tell the story. For starters, my kids have Italian blood, and as you all know, one drop of Italian blood is enough to…
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Two Thanksgiving Day traditional foods
A Thanksgiving Meal tradition in my family, which I’ve never seen elsewhere, is what we call “antipasto.” I’ve seen antipasto in other places, but it’s not the same thing we prepare. Oh, those strange divergent Napolitani… Our “pizzelles” aren’t the…
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weblog tour: colors/tastes
Time for the weblog tour! Topic for week ending 6/28/08 by housewife2k “What colors have a taste?” examples if needed, some foods or drinks just taste the color they are, like Blue Frost Gatorade tastes, well, blue! Actually, I wrote…
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A Christmas cookie conundrum
My Patient Husband learned to make gingerbread cookies this Christmas. They’re really good. He looked at a bunch of recipes, got a feel for how it would work, then modified the recipe so we didn’t end up with your typical…
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A note to the Gatorade corporation
Kiddo#1 got sick to his stomach, and I gave him Gatorade. (Our generation got ginger ale; the generation before got Coke with the bubbles stirred out. I wonder what’s next in the lineup?) We had two bottles in the house….
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a jell-o salad post
We’ve been receiving Christmas catalogs for three weeks now, but yesterday I decided to start keeping them. They stay in a paper bag until after Christmas when they all get recycled at once. Kiddo#2 found them and is currently upstairs…
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Some thankfulness just ‘cuz
I’m taking a break from cooking with my mom because “we don’t have enough food.” For the record, we are cooking for “16 people.” (The 18 guardian angels who will also be present will not be eating much.) Of those…
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My first turkey dinner
The first time I prepared a turkey dinner was Christmas, 2001. Previous holidays had been spent with family, but after losing Emily in 2000 and having Kiddo#2 in 2001, I wanted to be home for Christmas. My Patient Husband was…
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A family 2E funny
For CC families of one or two, rather than buying a whole turkey, the list asks you for a turkey breast. Turkey breast is $1.49 a pound, and turkey is $.69 a pound, plus a turkey breast is only light…
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