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Time for Crepe Suzette to make a triumphant comeback, non?
Here is the USA's own French chef Julia Child prepping the dessert:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/video/Julia-Child-Makes-Crepe-Suzette.html
The Dinner Club
Three friends and neighbors and I have a dinner club. We didn’t sit down and decided “Lets have a dinner club!”, it just happened organically when we started getting together for drinks, “fika” or dinner. After the first dinner to with everyone pitched in bringing a random dish we said it mig...
Right up to the next-to-last sentence, I didn't cry. Then, bam!
This is why I avoid playing poker.
Summer Babe
It's in full swing now, this lovely summer. The weather has been glorious, the nights long. The sun shines and the breeze blows. The flowers bloom and fade, and the plums are already starting to fall. The baby...
Completely in your corner, Benita. Why not relax and adopt a flex-schedule? Most bloggers I follow do and my joy in them is not diminished by their randomly spaced posts. Enjoy your life away from the keyboard!
Five
Today it’s exactly five years since I started this blog and without much thought named it Chez Larsson, at the Larsson’s. Little did I know the popularity it would gain and how many of you that would tune in daily, weekly or on occasion since then. The blog has given me so much. I’ve gained on...
Only you, Benita, would think to bring such style to a simple broom. Inspiring.
Would you comment ont he subtle lace pattern on the cabinet doors -- wallpaper or ???
New Broom
I needed a new broom. The reason? I used the old one to hack away at a large chunk of snow and ice that hung perilously over the entrance door as it thawed. It broke. One of the reasons it broke was probably the fact that I hadn’t done a good enough job the last time around to attach the...
Why not a a (very cute) hipster Williamsburg WIFE (who loves cats) to grant you a green card? That'd be much more modern and probably neater around the house!
New York Day 4
On the last day of our trip to New York we decided to go to Brooklyn. More precisely to Williamsburg. Let me say this right away. I could live there. Here’s Wille pretending that those are the stairs to our place. Indeed. Lovely. It’s not all picture pe...
Skol with an imaginary umlaut!
The Bar
The bar’s all stocked up for the weekend! Just thought I’d show you where I put all the bottles after removing the Expedit which used to store my wine. I had those bottles, cans and snacks floating about throughout my kitchen cabinets for a period of time but by doing a bit of reorganizing I...
Koloro desks are really fresh and fun! I think practical, too -- boxy top focuses your attention on the task at hand, and there's no room for distracting clutter.
Torafu Architects
You can certainly call them colorful ... book stands from Japanese Archittecs Torafu ... you probably have seen work from them before just didn't know they made so many more amazing things ... I'm talking about the Air Vase. But I would like to show you these other three products today. The ...
So many beloved pets spoken of in these comments. I've certainly had more than my share depart this world. I miss and love them still.
But now I care for six mostly senior dogs -- all "unadoptable" (ha-!) -- and I took in a young sick Husky mix as a foster. He's well now. I try not to allow the final ink in the bond I feel with him. I have to find him a wonderful forever home. Six is already too many.
Reading Alicia's posts and the heartfelt comments, I know there are tremendous people out there who are devoted to their animals. I just need to find one for the Husky boy.
Little Flower
Thank you so much for all of your kindness, and each and every one of your generous and tender words yesterday. I had a nice day and spent a lot of time outside in the front yard, fussing in my little ways over the garden and trying to make things nice out there. It felt really good. The p...
Thank you for compiling this list of alternatives to iGoogle. Most other sources say NetVibes and stop at that. I have faint hope Google will reconsider, but am heartened to know the landscape of free personal start pages is not barren.
25 iGoogle Alternatives
Google continues to eat itself, by feeding more and more of its products into the ever hungry maw of Google+ The latest is their start or home page, iGoogle. For those of you who are not sure what a home or start page is, the page that pops up when you start your browser is your home/start page....
That video c'est merveilleux
366: Day 177-183
Monday evening was spent celebrating Wille’s friend Leo’s 18th birthday at his home I the city. Sanna, Leo’s mom, is one of my best friends so it was lovely. Sanna told me about this new (to us) show Work of Art. I’d missed three episodes so I watched them online to catch up. Love it! Fo...
Thanks for reminding me about Work of Art. Just bought Season One on Amazon for $10. In the States Bravo is not airing it for free right now.
Cats look happy! Who wouldn't be, in your pretty and cozy home.
366: Day 177-183
Monday evening was spent celebrating Wille’s friend Leo’s 18th birthday at his home I the city. Sanna, Leo’s mom, is one of my best friends so it was lovely. Sanna told me about this new (to us) show Work of Art. I’d missed three episodes so I watched them online to catch up. Love it! Fo...
Scrumptious and gorgeous. Please share frosting and deco recipe.
Can't Hardly Wait
We are so lucky! Our friends are coming to visit us! The plane gets in this afternoon. My heart is bubbling over. So, so, so excited. So excited.
Is there any weather more evocative of childhood memories than snowfall?
White Night
It snowed for a few minutes yesterday morning, but for the rest of the day it was cold and dry. I kind of wanted to go somewhere, but they kept warning that worse weather was on its way. So I stayed in and drank pots of tea and hung out with the puppers and later sauteed some mushroo...
Oh it is so good to laugh. Only you, Alicia, could capture and caption this scene so aptly. Love Miss Clover Meadow.
I explained that it was time to make the quilt...
I explained that it was time to make the quilt sandwich, and she wasn't allowed to get on the quilt yet. She explained to me that she wasn't actually on the quilt. . . . No, not actually. Kind of a literalist. Mwah. Right on your big ol' nose, you. Precious love.
I'll have one-a them Andy Bars, please ...
Clackamas County Fair 2011
We wait all year. And then the best day of the summer arrives. The one where we go to the Clackamas County Fair. I love the fair. I love everything about the fair. I love getting a chance to peek in on this lifestyle I have always, always wanted to be a part of. I love how incredibly friendl...
Benita, surely you are the 21st century's Wonder Woman!
Hampers on Wheels
I should have revealed my laundry room by know, I know. Things in there kind of came to a halt for a little while with all the painting outside so I’m afraid all I can share right now are my new laundry hampers. Exciting, I know. Anyway they’re on wheels. You know how I love castors but this ...
Any horse who helps you on your journey-to-athlete is a lucky animal. Above all your amazingness and accomplishment, it's your time with horses that most inspires and moves me.
Old Bones and Simple Stitches
I've been riding a lot the past few days and it's all still kind of just blowing my mind — can't quite find words to talk about it, really. I probably will find some words at some point, knowing me. For now, when I get home I am sooooo tired, it's actually quite hilarious. I'm speechlessly tir...
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