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Jul 10

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The persistence of eggs-on-things, plus amazing roasted broccoli

It used to be that when I had a night at home by myself I would choose to eat something ridiculously easy and bad for me – like fast food indian fare, or barbeque, or an entire Chipotle burrito (which, by the way, turns out is significantly worse for you than a KFC Double-Down). But ever since this lady turned me on to eggs-on-things, I just can’t seem to stay away and it has become my mainstay solo home dining activity.  I’m pretty sure I posted sometime this winter or spring about at least one time we had eggs on cabbage, or brussels sprouts, or kale, or something like that, but there’s no way I have accurately portrayed just how much we’ve eaten a take on eggs-on-things over the past 6 months. Read more

Jul 9

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A perfect summer dinner

With a fridge packed full of more produce than we know what to do with from our weeks away and a hankering for summer to finally come to the Close Household, we celebrated a summer evening in our backyard with a perfect summer meal.

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Feb 21

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Firey, Triple Crunchy Emergency Guacamole

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Subscribing to a CSA has lead to a lot of “whoa, we still have x in the fridge?” and “crap, that thing we didn’t use three weeks ago, and again two weeks ago, means we now have three weeks of that thing built up that we need to use.” Overall it’s been an excellent exercise in eating more veggies and a more interesting array veggies and in meal planning and cooking, but sometimes we get the same thing so many weeks in a row we kind of lose track of it. Especially when they give us some items, like avocados, that specifically need to sit around a few weeks before they’re ripe and edible. Read more

Feb 21

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The perfect Valentine’s gift

As much as it pains me to say it because it makes my own gift-giving experiences that much more difficult, I do think there is such a thing as the “perfect gift.” It varies occasion to occasion and with the particular giver and receiver, but, every once in a while, a gift strikes the perfect balance three scales: (1) frivolity, (2) appropriate unexpectedness, and (3) the “treat factor.”

For instance, this year Brett gave to me the perfect Valentine’s Day gift – a madeleine pan.

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Jan 26

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Apparently, I love cabbage!

It is not the wedding ring on my finger, the china in the cupboard, the guest bedroom, nor the solid wood bedroom set we bought ourselves for Christmas (I love you, solid wood furniture, by the way) but the sentence I am about to write that officially makes me an adult: Braised cabbage might be one of the best things that has ever happened to me. Read more

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