Author: strejde
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I like pears!
Okay, maybe I should preface that by saying that normally, I do NOT like pears. Maybe it’s just awful memories of elementary school cafeteria lunches with horrible mushy enchiladas and a side of canned pears. Yuck! They’re grainy, they’re soft…they’re like apples that have just gone amiss. I’ve always wanted to snack on a fresh…
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Oh! The cuteness!
During the days W.C. (without computer), I was pretty crafty. I decided to use one of the patches I bought from Fishcakes for a small purse. I had been wanting to sew a bag of some sort for a while, but it always seemed too difficult, or maybe too time-consuming. I was wrong. I followed…
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Happy Autumn!
So here in Austin, we tend to have summer, then a little bit of fall and winter, then summer again. But it’s 57 degrees outside at 10:40 in the morning, so I’m officially calling it Autumn. I love, love, love the fall…I wish we had more of it here. I bought my first little pumpkin,…
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Pesto to the rescue
I’ve always loved tabbouleh, but I rarely make it because my favorite recipe, from the Lake Austin Spa Resort, calls for fresh mint, fresh parsley, fresh chives…and for someone without an herb garden handy, it means buying all those herbs for one dish. Enter Cooking Light. I found a tabbouleh recipe in a Cooking Light…
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We’re back!
Roux and I are at it again, blogging and surfing and emailing and lounging near the computer. Turns out we had a bad backup battery. Can you believe it? A tiny little battery was causing all those problems. Before we figured that out, though, the Apple service guy erased our hard drive. Yuck. So Justin…