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 [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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