Lina on March 2nd, 2010

I’ve been writing a lot about food lately.  I have a post over at the Green Phone Booth today about CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) and it made me realize just how much I’ve been focusing on food lately.  But its just so good, even when you’re not an expert at making it.  I’m lucky enough [...]

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Lina on February 14th, 2010

So despite the debate raging about nuts in brownies, most people not allergic to nuts can agree that peanut butter and chocolate are really yummy together.  My sister makes an incredible chocolate peanut butter cup so I snagged her recipe to make David some treats for Valentine’s Day.
Kate is so fancy and includes lovely chocolate [...]

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Lina on February 12th, 2010

Okay, so I made 4 batches of brownies in 6 days.  Yes, that’s a little extreme but we had so much snow, I had to do something.  And besides, brownies are the perfect food.  Chocolate and bread,  yum!
Anyway, this was all part of an experiment and one that I thank my husband for suffering through. [...]

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Lina on January 9th, 2010

Brownies are the perfect dessert.  I could pretend to have more refined tastes (and I’ve never said no to anything sweet – yum!) but brownies are the perfect mix of my two favorite things – chocolate and bread.  Brownies are easy to make too but until yesterday, I had not made a great one.  I [...]

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Lina on January 3rd, 2010

Here’s a quick update of what we’ve been up to.
First, it snowed.  A lot.

There was enough snow that David and Zoe made an igloo.

We made snow cream.  (About a cup of milk, a bit of vanilla and a bit of sugar, stir it up and pour it over a bowl of fresh snow.  Yummy and [...]

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