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Menu du jour manners : 24 Recipes


  • Recipe Calling Dr. Good Manners...Dr. Good Manners?
    Calling Dr. Good Manners...Dr. Good Manners?
    I went to the doctor today. Just a regular check up. Plus, I need a new doctor as we have moved to this area recently. I chose the doctor based on an advertisement that I saw in our neighborhood magazine. Her picture made me like her. I went.[...]
  • Recipe Miss Manners
    Miss Manners
    As most of you all know, I am busy as a bee planning my September wedding and I am just bursting at the seams with excitement. Thankfully, I plan events for a living which has helped tremendously. I am also not afraid to admit that I am a huge[...]
  • Recipe It's a Goode Life: Lil' Miss Manners
    It's a Goode Life: Lil' Miss Manners
    At our last trip to the Pediatrician, the Doc mentioned that Miss Add had great manners. The trip was filled with "Please" and "Thank Yous" as are many of our outings. Many folks often give Add a pat on the back for her Goode Manners.[...]
  • Recipe It's a Goode Life: Lil' Miss Manners
    It's a Goode Life: Lil' Miss Manners
    At our last trip to the Pediatrician, the Doc mentioned that Miss Add had great manners. The trip was filled with "Please" and "Thank Yous" as are many of our outings. Many folks often give Add a pat on the back for her Goode Manners.[...]
  • Recipe It's not rules, it's plain manners.
    It's not rules, it's plain manners.
    Before I touch on the subject of what I want to talk about today, I must share with the world that I am so excited that Ma is here in Ottawa! I went to the GreyDog station to pick her up after my first day of front of house stage at the school's[...]
  • Recipe what NOT to say...
    what NOT to say...
    Me : Hey XYZ. How are you? How is the family? XYZ: We are hanging in there. It's been a tough few weeks. Nothing like you deal with everyday though. Me: What do you mean? (at this point I should have just smiled, wished her well[...]
  • Recipe How to Set the Table
    How to Set the Table
    I’ve pondered for some time whether to write this post. Some may find it snobby. Others will dismiss it as elitist or old-fashioned. But my hope is that many will sing its praises! Because today I’m writing from my heart with a[...]
  • Recipe Does Tipping Need to Die?
    Does Tipping Need to Die?
    From Kelly Senyei, Gourmet Live : “Alright, everybody cough up some green.” It’s the opening scene of Quentin Tarantino’s contemporary classic, 1994′s über-violent heist flick Reservoir Dogs. The late Chris[...]
  • Recipe Learning to be a young lady
    Learning to be a young lady
    Many moons ago I went to boarding school. During a recent shift I unearthed the little diary I kept at the time. I used to keep it in my sponge bag, along with the occasional illicit bar of chocolate, because I figured if the nuns did a[...]
  • Recipe In a Manner of Speaking (or Singing)
    In a Manner of Speaking (or Singing)
    Exactly who gets to decide what defines good table manners? In Brazil, blowing or wiping your nose at the table is unforgivably rude, I?ve read that in Ecuador, one doesn?t eat with their fingers and in Egypt if you look at someone else?s plate, they[...]