Tag: recipe
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Banana Bread with Peanut Butter Recipe
Peanut butter bread can be dry and dense. Banana bread can be boring. Combine the two for the best of both worlds and it’s kid friendly!
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Quick and Easy Herb Garden Hummus Recipe
A great way to use up some thriving herbs from your herb garden is to whip up this quick and easy hummus recipe. It tastes great and is kid and baby approved.
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Christmas Traditions
I like to think that we all have our own Christmas traditions. And while that may not be true for everyone (indeed, Christmas is not even celebrated by many), Ivan and I certainly grew up with our own. This Christmas, after thirty years of spending the holiday with our families, we spent the day on…
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The Ragamuffin Parade and the Third Avenue Festival
Last Saturday, Bay Ridge hosted an annual parade charmingly referred to as the Ragamuffin Parade. The participants of the Third Avenue march consisted primarily of children from the area dressed in their Halloween costumes. For a few hours, itty pirates and miniature Disney princesses skipped down the street; Yoshi and Mario tromped next to…
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Beets and Garlic Scapes
Weekends have pretty much been a bust for us lately. And what with work, chores and taking care of the dogs, the weekends are really our only opportunity to actually get out and do something or experience a new part of this awesome city. Unfortunately the past few weekends Ivan has been on-call and…
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Owl’s Head Park
I suppose I touched on the subject of getting a job recently. I didn’t really go into details and there isn’t any reason to now, but it does have something to do with my lack of bloggy enthusiasm lately. I work 9-6 weekdays. Ivan leaves the house shortly before 6am. If I want to get…
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The Seven Year Cake
Monday, May 26th, was Memorial Day. It was also Ivan and my seventh anniversary. I can’t really say that it seems so long ago that we were married because it just seems like we’ve always been together. When I try to remember my life before being with Ivan, I just remember being very young. We…
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The Stop and Drop Phenomenon
Have I mentioned yet how stupendous it is to have a real, full kitchen? I say that primarily for two reasons: 1. I love cooking and 2. I spent January 2012 to December 2014 in Grenada where I had no proper stove (just a toaster oven), four cabinets in which to store my food and…
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Babe and the Viking Parade
On Sunday, Bay Ridge hosted a Norwegian parade. As it turns out, there is a large, proud Norwegian population in the area. Also, as we live on Third Avenue, a main route in Bay Ridge, the parade marched its honking, blaring, boisterous self right in front of our windows. But, given the usual traffic noise…