Subtitle: Andrea adores alliteration. Anyway. I made challah again for Thanksgiving. All by my big girl self. Yes, I borrowed my mom’s Kitchenaid mixer. Yes, I used CSA eggs. At this point, the recipe is familiar enough that I’m comfortable experimenting a little the next time I make it, but the Thanksgiving loaves were by [...]
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Ah, Thanksgiving break. A time for food, family, friends. And for finally finishing the posts that have been sitting in draft-limbo. Riiiight. For a couple of weeks now I’ve been doing a Saturday or Sunday crock pot thing, mostly inspired by how useful my #fishtacos leftovers proved to be. Now that rugby is over for [...]
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I had some pumpkin beer left over after #fishtacos, but it was really pushing the limit in terms of acceptable growler time (AGT). When AGT is surpassed – and it doesn’t happen often – I usually cook with the beer since its only real fault is flatness. If you’ll recall, all three growlers had pumpkin [...]
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I had an “old-Andrea” type of morning. Despite getting 8+ hours of sleep, I awoke exhausted, snoozing long enough to make me hurried but not long enough to make me late. I forgot: coat, notebook, bag, lunch, earrings and card (as in greeting, not bank). Several of those things were needed – but not necessary [...]
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Last weekend I found myself surprisingly sans boys Saturday night. I never did the math that both would be gone, so I never made alternative plans. Luckily, I said the magic words to quickly gather six additional people in my home on less than 24 hours notice: #fishtacos I am such a sucker for good [...]
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Yesterday was an awesome fall day on so many accounts. Beautiful weather (at least for the majority of the day), soccer, napping, beer (and cider!), cooking and baking. And I wasn’t even the one who got to nap! We’ve been keeping our growlers filled pretty regularly, cycling through as many delicious pumpkin beers as possible [...]
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As I said on my public account last night, I had an evening all about cooking and eating. I met up with Lauren and saw @cookingforgeeks at the Waffle Shop (thanks to Meg from Table & Spoon for putting that together). I also ran into Emily at the event, which was a lovely bonus of [...]
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Most of you know I’m flying solo this week. (That’s part of the reason I’ll be missing PodCamp Pittsburgh 5. [but you should still go! Seriously!]) Luckily, work has been ridiculously supportive and accommodating so I can take Avi to school in the mornings. That’s been an interesting challenge in and of itself, since this [...]
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The first Tuesday of every month we have breakfast goodies at our weekly staff meetings. The responsibility for the snacks rotates amongst the departments, and tomorrow is the first time since I started my new job that my department is up. I don’t know what anybody else is bringing – we talked about it last [...]
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I think cooking can definitely fall into the “art” category quite easily. And the final meal we had – and cooked ourselves – in Chicago (remember that?!) was definitely high art. We made filled pasta. From scratch. When I say “we” I mean “not me”. I helped. But this is not my area of expertise [...]
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