Category: Eat
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Life is Short, and Food is a Lovely Part of It: Six Courses at the Chef’s Table
Life is short, and food is a lovely part of it. As Julia Child is noted to have said, ““The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” (However, I really must notch up the running again next week . . . ). To celebrate our 22nd wedding […]
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Lunchtime
It is almost mid-afternoon and my morning business ran long, hence I am not feeling even an ounce of photographic inspiration as I read my emails, review this week’s challenge, and eat my late lunch from one of my favorite little coffee shops. I will try to make up for my lack of creativity with […]
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Teen in the Kitchen: Pear Bread and Poetry
The wind is howling, snow is blowing, and the house fills with the aroma of baking bread in the oven and chili on the stove top. The men of the house are in the kitchen! My 17-year-old son is putting on a repeat performance of his pear bread that he baked a couple of weeks […]
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Celebrating 100 Posts! Italy Off the Beaten Path ~ San Galgano and the Sword in the Stone
One hundred posts! How can it be?! Thank you for reading, for visiting, for commenting, for following! One of the motivations for starting the blog was to provide an outlet for reminiscing about and preserving some of my favorite memories of a special trip we had to Italy the previous summer. To celebrate the 100th post, […]
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I Don’t Really Care About Your Blog, But Will You Post This Photo?
Periodically, I will send my husband a link to my latest blog post or pull it up on the screen of the laptop in the kitchen while he is cooking and say, “hey, take a look at this” — being pretty proud from time to time of my creative efforts. Last time I did that, […]
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