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Everyone needs their own chocolate stash

I decluttered a bit of space in one of our kitcehn cabinets and now I have easy access to my chocolate stash. No more digging behind bowls to try to get my daily piece (or more than one as has... Continue reading

Posted 17 hours ago at Life is in the Details

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Breakfasts Around Here Lately

My savory green soups for breakfast have been momentarily interrupted to enjoy the signs of spring: asparagus! I can't get enough lately (add artichokes to that list but that's normal for me this time of year). This is so simple...... Continue reading

Posted 2 days ago at Life is in the Details

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Travel art journal beginnings

Mike and I are taking a dream trip together this summer and I'm envisioning lots of time for walking, wandering and savoring. I want to take along a funky art journal to record my thoughts and to encourage me to... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at Life is in the Details

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Cranberry (or Cherry) Chocolate Chip Scones

These make a fairly quick and delicious treat to bring over to a friend who's going through a difficult patch. They show love and kindness... because you're that kind of person. Save one or two or three for yourself because... Continue reading

Posted 4 days ago at Life is in the Details

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Riesling Wine Tasting

Has it really been a month since my last post? Time has been like that over here. The days pass as quickly as the turning pages in a book. Sometimes it feels like a Captain Underpants flip book. In a... Continue reading

Posted 4 days ago at Life is in the Details

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The Big Reveal: Master Bathroom Cabinets #DIY

The before and after shots of our master bathroom cabinets - the test run before attempting the much larger job of painting the ones in the kitchen. After much variable-overlay-hinge searching (they don't make them anymore), hinge spray painting, similar-in-results-size-5-wood-screw... Continue reading

Posted Apr 18, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Scenes from this weekend's wine tasting

This past Sunday I hosted a monthly wine tasting where each us brought a bottle of a favorite wine. There were lots of tasty ones this time around! Let me tell ya... we have good taste!! I brought a bottle... Continue reading

Posted Apr 18, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Photos from my lunch/cooking play date

My first cooking-lunch-playdate went so nicely and we are definitely going to do this again!! Thanks Donna! Continue reading

Posted Apr 10, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Lunch

I'm packing up a few things and heading off to my friend's house for a lunch cooking get-together. FUN! What's on the menu? I sent 4 possibilities via email and my friend chose Menu 4: Bánh xèo (Vietnamese veggie-filled pancakes... Continue reading

Posted Apr 10, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Succulent Grapefruit Salad

Here's what I wrote about this recipe from Burma: River of Flavors on 101Cookbooks Library: This was a fresh and wonderful salad that relies on a few of the staples that I've already made from this book: toasted chickpea flour,... Continue reading

Posted Mar 19, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Chocolate Krantz Cake (or Chocolate Babka) from Ottolenghi's Jerusalem

This chocolate krantz/babka is absolutely gorgeous and utterly delicious. This became an instant favorite in our home. If you're comfortable baking bread you must bake this as soon as you can! This is the best chocolate babka to ever come... Continue reading

Posted Mar 18, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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New WINE section added to the blog

I've added a new wine section to my blog that you can now access through the navigation bar up top. I invite you to go have a look and let me know what you think. Links to all of my... Continue reading

Posted Mar 12, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Wines of Spain Wine Tasting & Tapas from Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian

Yesterday, I had some friends over for a wine tasting at my house where we explored some wines from Spain. Here's a photo of the wines we sampled (2 whites, 4 reds): A closer look: I really enjoyed this Albariño... Continue reading

Posted Mar 11, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Happy Pizza Friday!

I have dough bubbling away on the counter that i mixed up last night and it's been two weeks since our regular weekly installment of Pizza Friday. I'm really craving it today. Here's what two weeks ago looked like... It... Continue reading

Posted Mar 1, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Grapefruit Olive Oil Poundcake (The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook)

I *love* grapefruit and have been eating it since I was a little kid. My mom even let me take our family grapefruit knife with me to college and that very same knife rests in my kitchen drawer today. I... Continue reading

Posted Mar 1, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Braised white beans and leeks

These take a while to make but most of it is hands-off time in the oven and they turn out delicious! This is a great meal accompaniment for vegetarians and omnivores alike. Ryan gobbled them up and said they were... Continue reading

Posted Feb 28, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Moroccan-inspired Quinoa, Citrus, & Pistachio-Stuffed Acorn Squash

There is a lot more going on in this recipe from The Sprouted Kitchen than the title suggests as my review on 101Cookbooks Library below explains: After reading recipe notes from others that have made this, I opted to leave... Continue reading

Posted Feb 27, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Miso soup with acorn squash, shallots, and edamame (from Mdhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian)

I wasn't in the mood for a complicated recipe or a big ingredient list the night that I made this for myself. It was a long day and I felt like I was already making a ton of different things... Continue reading

Posted Feb 26, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Madhur Jaffrey's Cauliflower & Corn (Phulawar Makai Nu Shaak)

For the past two months I've been cooking more from Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian and is recipe was delicious but the instructions start out by asking me to do the impossible: make a ginger chile purée in my blender using... Continue reading

Posted Feb 26, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Concussion update

Since I haven't mentioned the concussion incident here at my blog yet I'll give the background. If you only want the update jump down to the next section (aptly titled, UPDATE). Ryan was doing a jump-roll (a jump into a... Continue reading

Posted Feb 21, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Didn't care for this Moroccan chickpea carrot salad

A group of us gathered at a friend's house last week and I like to be adventurous and do the thing that you're always told never to do... Bring a recipe you've never tried before, but throwing caution to the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 15, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Finished Funked Out Peasant Top

We have a completed Funked Out Peasant Top!! Holy cow... I made that! This zipper is totally unnecessary for me and if I sew this again I won't include it, which will make this much easier to make. If I... Continue reading

Posted Feb 6, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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Rosemary Lentils Over Polenta

This was a wonderful meal that I ate for dinner last night and, happily, again for lunch today. Served with a mixed green salad, I found this comforting, energizing (because it doesn't weigh you down and you feel *good* after... Continue reading

Posted Feb 6, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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The kids finish their tote bags

Ryan completed his tote bag and has used it a bunch of times already. He was very excited about it as you can see! His favorite part, as he will tell you if he can remember the name, was sewing... Continue reading

Posted Feb 5, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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On-the-go lunch

This past Saturday I found myself in the same place I find myself now (the Tae Kwon Do studio) with this post still in draft form. Below was the beginning of a larger post that I hoped to write but... Continue reading

Posted Feb 4, 2013 at Life is in the Details

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