From the monthly archives:

June 2007

I Would Call It a Vacation, But…

June 21, 2007

 
I would call what we are getting ready to go on a vacation, but I don’t think I can. To me a vacation involves a lounge chair, an umbrella drink, the sand in my toes and the sound of the ocean waves in my ear. In my mind, the word vacation is not equivalent to [...]

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A Cover to Covet

June 20, 2007

Written for Just Baking on the Well Fed Network
I know you all have been there. You are standing in the checkout lane of a grocery store and a magazine photo catches your eye. Maybe it is one with the current celebrity gossip. Maybe you are more of the House and Garden type and spot a [...]

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Leaves and Trees

June 18, 2007

 
When Lisa over at La Mia Cucina announced that her and Kelly were hosting a Salad Extravaganza, I knew just the recipe I was going to submit. Believe it or not, we eat more than just desserts around here at the Dine and Dish household. I love salads and we have a salad with dinner [...]

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I Am Losing It

June 17, 2007

 
OK – I have a question for all of you. How many of you have gained weight since you started your food blogs? It’s confession time! I started my blog at the very end of November and at that point I had exactly 10 pounds of baby weight left to lose. Well, as of a [...]

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Baked Goods = Love

June 13, 2007

Written for Just Baking on the Well Fed Network
 
There used to be a time when I did not see the point of making homemade cookies. Why bother with all the trouble when you can get refrigerated cookie dough? What could be easier than snipping open the package, slicing some dough and then baking them? Why [...]

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Cravings

June 11, 2007

Crave: to want greatly : to yearn for: to have a strong or inward desire 
Oh, I know all about cravings. Cravings are getting up in the middle of the night to make scones because you cannot get them out your mind.  Cravings are my 13 year old nephew walking one and a half miles [...]

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This Calls for Something Strong

June 9, 2007

 
Whew – it has been a long week! I spent this past week teaching preschool crafts to 100 3 and 4 your olds for our church Vacation Bible School program. Yes…100 three and four year old children came through our classroom each day to learn a message and do a craft each day. I am [...]

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June 2007 Issue of Gourmet Magazine

June 6, 2007

Written for Paper Palate on the Well Fed Network
I ran into a slight dilemma when I sat down to write my article about the June 2007 issue of Gourmet magazine. I opened up the magazine to find page after page after page torn out. No, my kids did not get a hold of the issue. [...]

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Smashing Berries

June 3, 2007

 
There is nothing out there that is quite as gratifying to me as smashing, kneading, chopping, beating, etc. the heck out of food. When I am stressed, give me a recipe that calls for doing something inhumane to the ingredients and by the time I have an end product, my stress is gone.
This morning, [...]

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