I have been home sick for the last few days. Here are some of the exciting things I’ve been up to:
I’ve been drinking lots of this:
and this too,
By the way, did you know that you can go visit the Celestial Seasonings Tea Room in Boulder, CO? First you take a tour of the tea production [...]
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Under The Weather
Posted in Everything Else, Recipe, food, life, tagged chicken soup, Earl Grey tea, herbal tea, kleenex, Never Been Kissed, Pride and Prejudice, ricola, sleeping on November 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First-Grader Bento Lunches
Posted in bento, food, kids, tagged bento, japanese dollar store, lunch, Sigg on November 5, 2009 | 5 Comments »
turkey & veggie cream cheese roll-ups, carrots, ranch dressing in the red container, a babybel cheese wheel, blueberries, mini chocolate chip cookies
I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since I started making bento lunches for CJ. We have had a fun-filled year of lunch adventures. Thanks to my friend Keiko, my bento stash has expanded [...]
Quick & Easy Chili
Posted in Everything Else, Recipe, food, tagged easy dinner, Recipe on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This has been a family favorite for a long time. I don’t remember which cookbook I copied the recipe out of, but I have tweaked it a little bit over the years until it feels like my recipe now. The chili tastes great the first night, but is even better the next day. We serve our chili with cheese [...]
Easy Lemon Cream Pie
Posted in Recipe, food, life, tagged blogging, cool whip, dessert, lemons, moving, new house on June 4, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Well Now that I’ve missed posting in May entirely I thought I’d try to catch up a little. I have wanted to blog. I’ve thought about blogging so many times about many different topics, but honestly I been busy and kind of in a funk. Some of you may remember that we moved to the Eastern USA [...]
Make A Monkey Smoothie
Posted in Recipe, food, tagged bananas, breakfast, peanut butter, shake, soy protein powder on April 2, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Here is my current breakfast favorite – a Monkey Smoothie. Just writing this post makes me want one, even though I had one this morning. I don’t know what makes it so good, I think it’s just the combination of ingredients. The regular recipe is listed below, but you can also substitute sunflower seed butter for the [...]
Hands Off My Salad!
Posted in food, humor, life, tagged lunch, salad, snarky, waiter on February 4, 2009 | 24 Comments »
I went out for a girls’ lunch with my friend Julie recently. We split a salad and each got our own burger. We were having a good time chatting away when the waiter came by and asked me if he could take my salad plate. I looked at my plate and noticed there was a little [...]
Baja Style Carnitas
Posted in Family, Home, Recipe, food, tagged burrito, easy dinner, mexican food, new year's eve, pork loin roast, salsa verde, taco, Wii on January 10, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Now that Christmas is over we have spent a nice, relaxing week being lazy and cozy. In fact, I’m having a hard time getting back into the swing of things. It has rained a lot here and that makes it easier to stay inside and be close. We’ve spent our time playing board games, watching [...]
