Today is SparkPeople Shout-Out Day, so like a good little lemming, I tout and brag and pronounce SparkPeople to the masses. Yay. Seriously, though, it’s been helpful. There are pros and cons over Weight Whatchamacallit. Free v. non-free, fiber counteracts some of the calories, etc. But overall, I’m using a lot of WW ideas and [...]
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For Boxing Day, I went to IKEA today for some overdue furniture shopping. I have cardboard boxes (it’s a cheap box tie-in, sorry), instead of bookshelves, and I am determined to have all of my book friends out and happy by year’s end. The shopping was fine and I spent money, yadda yadda yadda… but [...]
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Baking cookies is not exactly an art nor is it a science. But if you don’t follow the basic recipe, chocolate crinkles become chocolate bricks. I am raising a son who loves cookies but isn’t exactly the most interested baker. You need consistency in baking. Recipes, proper chemistry of emulsion, leavening and caramelization. You cannot [...]
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Thanks, Jette, Chip and esteemed panel. This entry is a Holidailies “Best of…” In other blogs, at other times, I have always promised to write about Threadgill’s, and tonight’s the night. Way way back in the 70s, when both my middle brother (four years older than me) and I lived at home, we became completely [...]
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Tonight is the choir social – first Monday of every month is our social wherein we make merry after rehearsal. I am one of the volunteers taking food (others bring wine! yay!). So first with the singing and then with the eating! In Hungary last month, I ate something amazing, and I’m trying to replicate [...]
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