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Here are some pictures of the house and some of the work we have been doing. I cannot wait for the rest of the wallpaper to come down!
Five on Friday: Volume 8
Five things I am going to miss about living in a city: 1. Ethnic food – especially all the delicious Lebanese and Indian places nearby! 2. Grocery stores. I can think of 10 places to buy groceries within 10 minutes of me right now. In our new town, there is 1. And it is a [...]
Crockpot Butternut Squash Soup
I almost threw this soup away. After I let it sit in the crockpot for a few hours, sonw of the half-n-half had separated and it looked like… well, I’m not going to say what it looked like, but it was not appetizing. I am thrilled that Ben convinced me to put it in the [...]
Update
Whoa guys, things got busy here in a hurry! We closed on our house last week (woo hoo!), but we are allowing the previous owners to stay until April while they close on their new place. So even though we own it, the house doesn’t really feel like ours. Ben has a long weekend at [...]
Baked Macaroni and Cheese
This is a basic macaroni recipe, and one that turns out great everytime. I served it alongside smothered pork chops. I did this on a Wednesday because my poor husband had to do six C-sections and several other deliveries along with outpatients in one day. That calls for mac-n-cheese and pork chops. I have been [...]
Today’s Thoughts
Let’s talk about sleep. Or rather, lack of sleep. Honestly, I don’t think Little Man has really slept well for 4 months. We hit the 4 month sleep regression – and never recovered. After struggling to get “back to normal” for a long time, I finally let go of the “normal” idea. In parenting, there [...]
Cream Cheese Coffee Cake
Two glorious things came together to prompt me to make this cake. 1. My mother-in-law gave me a cream cheese making kit for Christmas and I finally had a chance to try it out. I didn’t realize it would make an entire quart! I had to figure out something to do with all that cream [...]
Five on Friday: Volume 7
1. Do not roast turnips with curry powder. Uh … seriously gross. 2. Do make homemade cream cheese. And then put that cream cheese into a coffee cake. Probably the best coffee cake I have ever eaten. Recipe coming soon! 3. We are so so close to owning our first house. You guys, this place [...]
Roasted Rutabaga
Last night we tried rutabaga for the first time. A cousin of the turnip, rutabaga was the answer to a recent pub trivia question we had: “What is traditionally known in Europe as the famine vegetable?” With a reputation like that, no wonder people don’t eat it very often. We have it all wrong though. [...]
Eat your veggies! Weekly Menu Plan
I swear one of these weeks I will find time to post recipes of some of the dishes I have been cooking. As always, there are not enough hours in the day to accomplish everything I have planned. Certainly updating my corner of the internet is much lower on the priority list than snuggling with [...]