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  • Recipe Menu Plan for week of March 13 - This Week We Are All Irish!
    Menu Plan for week of March 13 - This Week We Are All Irish!
    I love St. Patrick's Day.  Not because I am a huge fan of corned beef and cabbage but because I love hard cider (preferrably Irish, of course) and traditional irish music (especially the pipes), and I can't forget Irish Cream. [...]
  • Recipe Study Week Menu
    Study Week Menu
         So this is the study week before exams. Which in of itself is a little bit terrifying. This semester has gone by incredibly fast. I could have swore I just did exams...      Anyway, everybody knows you can't[...]
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    this week's menu
    While fall may have arrived in Madison this weekend (it was 68 degrees and cloudy), our CSA delivery was summer in a box! I can't wait to cook this week; I need some kitchen therapy to recover from last week's horrendousness at work. Know that[...]
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    The oppressive humidity and heat have finally lifted in Madison. Driving home last night, I had all the car windows open. With the breeze blowing in Pickle?s hair, he said to me, ?it?s nice.? I had to agree. We?ve been eating loads of tomatoes[...]
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    My husband and I are of two mindsets when it comes to summer weather: he likes it about 72 degrees, no humidity and sunny; I like it about 82 degrees, a little humidity (my hair looks better when there's some humidity) and sunny. Well, he's been[...]
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    I can now understand why many families end up with freezers and pantries full of pre-packaged, processed food and frequent the drive-thru for dinner: when you and your spouse both work, you have a very small window of time to make dinner,[...]
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    this week's menu
    So, I?m doing the two-for-one special again this week. I don?t know why I haven?t been doing this more, since it saves me a huge amount of time on the weeknights while still providing us with some delicious and satisfying meals. Chris?s dad was[...]
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    Saturday was a good day. We had lots of visitors: my sister and her family came for a Café Soleil-supplied breakfast ? the pastries were a big hit with the kiddies and adults; Chris's mom and dad both popped in for visits and Chris and I had a[...]
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    Our first winter squash arrived in our CSA on Saturday; it?s a bespeckled carnival. Can't wait to roast it for a gorgeous salad of warm roasted squash, bacon lardons, dandelion greens and pecans from Suzanne Goin's amazing cookbook, Sunday[...]
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    this week's menu
    Since we're moving soon, I've been trying to clear out the freezer, so this week we're having freezer-supplied meals: frozen onion rings, caponata that I made from a boatload of peppers and eggplants in the fall, frozen broccoli, tomato sauce[...]