Tag: freezer
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The Junkyard of My Life
Really this post should be titled “Pantry Challenge – Week 2.” Not gonna lie, I feel like I knocked it out of the park this week. The pantry/freezer and my meal imagination powers just kept coming through for me. When last I left you, I had gone out to eat with a friend and the…
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Pantry Challenge: Week 1
Feeling exhilarated as we end the week, coasting on the fumes of what’s left in the fridge, freezer and pantry. It’s been a minute since I lived this simply, and wow, I forgot what a high it can be. And the amazing thing is that there is still a good bit of food left. Not…
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Serotonin and Oxytocin
[composed Sunday night] I was texting with a friend today about January. I have these moments of energy and optimism, I said, but then it’s back to blah. For instance, leaving work in the evening, walking east down Market Street, and realizing that despite the cold, it’s still light out, a pretty, purply twilight —…
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Basil in the Bedroom
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Double Life
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Books ‘n’ Cookies
It’s snowing today, the second day of spring. Whatever, I don’t care because Daylight Savings Time is back and no matter how much snow falls, it clearly feels like spring. For us it will be one last day off from school (maybe two?), and definitely a day to bake. The other week, I used pineapple…
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Fence Me In
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O, I Am a Lonely Painter
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My Name Is Squirrel
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Darling Don’t You Go and Cut Your Hair
This Sunday morning is off to a fine start. As soon as I got out of bed, only half-awake, I started prepping short-rib beef stew for the Crock-Pot. I had been pushing this off for days, and didn’t want to wait any longer. Been cooking a few hours now and it smells wonderfully oniony. After…
Garden State of Mind 