Tag: Christmas

You.  Guys. You don’t want to miss out on this stuff.  If there’s one holiday treat recipe that I’d say is darned near perfect for just about every occasion, this has to be it.  Fun nibble for a casual get-together? 

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Late in his life, my grandfather was diagnosed with celiac disease.  He took the news, and the subsequent dietary adjustment, quite well for someone who’d been eating wheat for sixty-odd years.  I rarely, if ever, heard him complain about it. 

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When I think about the holidays, I tend to go straight to a place where everything is filled with warm spices. Cinnamon, ginger, and cardamom are the smells and tastes of Christmas to me, and I use them both liberally

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I know it seems a bit early to be thinking about Christmas treats (although realistically, I’ve already got some major wish lists created on Amazon to track gift ideas for every member of the family, and I bet some of

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I feel like I should be writing something holidayish tonight — after all, the internet and pretty much every other food blogger out there are all aglitter with Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Solstice, Festivus…you name it, there’s a recipe for it. 

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We have just finished Day Four of our seven-day No-Shop challenge.  If you’re not caught up on what this is about, it’s one way we’re managing the excess spending that comes around at Christmastime each year – by opting out

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J. and I are not, by nature, extravagant people.  We don’t spend lots of money on the usual things — cars, clothes, gadgets, vacations.  We own both of our modest cars outright (and both have well over 100,000 miles to

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Some people reading this – like my sister, D. – will read that title with a snort and a knowing smirk.  They will say that I am exactly the WRONG person to write a blog post about organizing anything, especially

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L. has a quirky habit — okay, he has lots of quirky habits, but I’m only planning to address one in particular tonight.  We’ll leave the fact that he bites his toenails for another day. He is the master of

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Here I sit at my computer on the first evening of the month of December, and I’ve neglected to post a meal plan yet!  The time, it has been getting away from me lately.  I’m not even sure my proverbial candle

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