in july, we and the speers and cervantes families rented a house in kings beach and had us a little vacation. as you all know, no matter how long the vacation, its really never quite long enough, and this was no exception. we rented the house for 2 nights, arriving on friday afternoon and checking [...]
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Posted 31 August 2010
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lets break this drink down- vanilla bean sugar- go to peet’s coffee downtown and buy yourself 1 or 2 vanilla bean pods. they come individually wrapped in a cute little test tube and they are about $2.50 each. this is by far the cheapest you will find then anywhere. if you buy one from, say, [...]
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Posted 24 June 2010
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i seem to be on a frittata kick right now, so last night we had frittata lorraine- niman ranch ham, gruyere, and onions caramelized with thyme and zucchini fritters. i used 11 eggs, and holy crap, that makes a whole lotta frittata! sorry, couldnt help myself. anyhow, it made enough frittata to feed a small [...]
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Posted 24 June 2010
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having a daycare definitely has its challenges- working from home is good + bad, 4 screaming 2 and 3 year olds running around the house repeating the same thing over and over tries my patience, and the never ending diaper changes and nose wiping gets old. but i have been lucky to avoid the dreaded [...]
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Posted 22 June 2010
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this is an incredibly quick and pretty healthy meal considering all the vegetables in there and that it isnt a cream based dressing. feel free to add asparagus and red onion if you like. it only took 15 minutes to bake the chicken strips and i did all the chopping and made the dressing while [...]
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Posted 21 June 2010
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monday is here, sigh. i have been busy today trying to work up a menu for the month of august for my little food venture. i wont be able to start until august because we have a vacation to tahoe with the lovely speers and sirvateez families on the horizon in july. i have been [...]
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Posted 21 June 2010
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Oh man, you have to watch this.
<begin rant> This kind of shit just makes me sick (not the I-just-drank-a-bunch-of-puss-covered-utter-rBST-laden-milk sick, more the I-can’t-believe-this-is-happening sick). Basically its a post about how the “agricultural company,” Monsanto, is trying to push through some state legislation so that dairies can’t label their food “hormone-free.” From the Consumerist post, the reason being “[b]ecause milk can’t be [...]
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