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marisa @ July 21, 2008
unlike many members of my family, i do not agonize before making decisions, i actually enjoy the process. there is one decision that gets me every time though, what to drink before dinner. my husband, jonah and i often go to dinner with friends and when we meet for a drink before dinner, i get completely stuck. cocktails just don’t do it for me and i always end up with a glass of wine which somehow just doesn’t feel right.
i love when my sisters come to visit. emily and jonathan were in town recently for a wedding and were able to come over for dinner on friday night with our parents. i was browsing through my most recent issue of gourmet, trying to decide what to make when i stumbled across this delicious sangria recipe.
it is unlike any other sangria that i have tasted and green is really the best way to describe it. made from granny smith apples, green grapes, mint and dry white wine, it is truly crisp and light. cool and refreshing for summer, i have a new favorite drink before dinner.
click here for the gourmet magazine recipe on the epicurious site.
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chelsea @ July 12, 2008
Our parents planted an amazing vegetable garden every summer, so we were fortunate enough to grow up eating the most delicious, fresh produce. Thinking back on my childhood (and with the price of food sky-rocketing) I got inspired to grow my own vegetable garden. Dan and I live in an apartment in Portland and we [...]
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emily @ July 12, 2008
This recipe draws inspiration from three fabulous Atlanta-area restaurants I am delighted to share with you: The Flying Biscuit Cafe, Radial Cafe, and The Grit. The Flying Biscuit is homey in a free-range, murals-on-the-wall kind of way, especially at the original McLendon location. It is famously good, so go before 10am on weekends or you [...]
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emily @ July 11, 2008
I had a delicious bowl of pistachio ice cream last night. Jonathan made it, all by himself. He shelled all the pistachios by hand, too. Isn’t that sweet? First, thank you again to Marisa for the ice cream maker which made this tasty treat possible! For Christmas last year, she and Jonah gave each [...]
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ashley @ July 4, 2008
Happy Independence Day! I hope everyone is having a lovely day, preferably outside, to celebrate the summer. I’m off to a slow start this morning as a direct result of Aris and I going to happy hour last night–too many PBR’s and another bar later, we wound up having nachos and chocolate pudding at midnight [...]
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emily @ July 4, 2008
Happy 4th of July! Jonathan and I actually aren’t doing much to celebrate. We were out of town 3 weekends in June, so we are looking forward to being at home and relaxing . . . and working. I have a landscape design I need to finish and Jonathan is starting to study for his [...]
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emily @ July 3, 2008
Jonathan and I went on delightful weekend trip shared with and inspired by our friends Laurel and Katharine. They are doing a 1000-mile bicycle ride along the coast of Maine to Prince Edward Island and back during the month of July. Our 55-mile ride was a warm-up and gear check. We camped on Skidaway Island [...]
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ashley @ July 1, 2008
Growing up in Michigan, I never encountered Korean food. It wasn’t until I moved to California and met my friend Elaine, a first generation American Korean, that I was introduced to kimchee (spicy fermented cabbage), banchan (the assorted side dishes that come before every Korean meal), toasted nori (tasty seaweed strips that are flavored with [...]
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marisa @ June 28, 2008
i love to bake. and i love chocolate cake. and all cake. so when i was invited to our parent’s house to celebrate our grandmother jeanne’s 85th birthday, i made a delicious devil’s food cake topped with brown sugar buttercream. it was a hit. the cake was moist and chocolaty and the buttercream provided just [...]
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ashley @ June 20, 2008
ashley drinks beer, makes sun-dried tomato broccoli pasta, and gets a banana split.
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