Are you one who enjoys curling up with a good book and a warm glass of mulled wine by the fire? Why not have this same experience for dinner? This particular recipe leans on those warming spices typical of mulled wine and pairs them with sweet figs. It has both sweet and tangy notes, perfect […]
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It’s our last day in California and we road trip from Nice through Napa to San Fransisco. I was very excited to find the charcuterie I’d been planning to visit, and we saw the aftermath of this summer’s fires all around us. Perhaps the best part of our whole trip though, we got to meet […]
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It may (or may not) surprise you that we are really rather recluse people. Other than the 14 doorbell rings daily for the drop-off and pick-up of our 7 daycare friends, we really don’t have anyone over, and don’t go to anyone else’s place very often at all. Of course, ^THAT^ may be why. Major […]
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While shopping for Christmas gifts last year we took our annual trip to the 5th Avenue Mall. Yup, you heard right, annual. As much as I would love to go on a mini rant about the fact that the shopping ‘situation’ in America is completely blown out of proportion, and don’t get me started on […]
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Mustard and I have had a love hate relationship. For a long time it was something that I truly just hated. Now it’s different than my disdain for mayonnaise which has always been more about the unnecessary addition of sour smelling fat to one’s sandwich, (or any dish for that matter.) No, my issue with […]
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Andrew Thanksgiving, that means three things around this house. First, it’s a day for us to reflect and be thankful for everything we’ve been given, and not take anything for granted no matter how menial it may seem. Second, and this is very important, it means a long weekend for us. Hurrah! But also, it […]
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It’s been boggling my mind. I’ve spent more than a week wracking my brain. Finally I decided to ask someone else. I didn’t even have the question out of my mouth before I was laughing at myself for even having asked, knowing FULL-WELL the answer, “Andrew, what is it about cranberry sauce that no one […]
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It’s interesting, around here, the many different ways in which we come up with a new recipe. Today’s inspiration was a package of moose bacon from the freezer. That’s right, moose bacon. I don’t know if it’s a ‘thing’ in other states (deer or elk bacon) but it seems to be a special new ‘invention’ […]
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