Author: strejde
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Music week
Austin is officially swarming with music fans. The traffic is insane downtown, and South Congress is teeming with long-haired, laid-back music types wearing all black and big sunglasses. It’s fun. It’s been great working at the shop with live music right outside our door. This afternoon Pam, the owner of Plume, sang her heart out,…
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Banana goodies
Today at the bed and breakfast, I made the banana-pecan biscotti that my sister posted here. The cookies turned out perfectly! They were just golden, but still crunchy, with lots of banana flavor. I doubled the recipe, since we need two cookie jars full (one for each house). I like that there’s no butter in…
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Beets and Beats
Whoa! Sorry, I kind of flaked out there on posting for a few days. I’m back with some beets. Usually we pass our farmer’s market beets to Lindsay and Chad, since Lindsay is a beet-lover of sorts. But this week we kept them, so I made this salad (which I then fed to Lindsay anyway).…
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A lovely ragout
We’re still working on using up those gorgeous greens from the farmer’s market. I wonder if we’ll get as many during the summer? I’m running out of options for my non-green-loving husband. He seemed to like this dish, though, most likely because it has kale in it, which he considers the friendliest of greens. I…
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Happy Blogiversary!
Today marks poco-cocoa’s first birthday. It’s hard to believe a year has passed already! I spent the morning going through all my old posts, and it’s amazing to me: **how much I’ve changed, **how fast my hair has grown, **how many recipes I’ve forgotten about, even though they were SO GOOD, and **how wonderful the…