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Yesterday, we had our marmoleum kitchen floor installed and we love it. It's completely worth not having a refrigerator in the kitchen for the next 36 hours while it continues doing whatever it's doing before we seal it Wednesday night. We do have a fridge in the garage though, so that is helpful. I'm just …

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Yes, we're taking a break in the Fall Foods Fest (Pumpkin!) for a post about vodka sauce. Typically, penne is served in this dish but I had some fresh pasta from Pastaworks so there you go. This recipe was in the most recent issue of Cook's Illustrated magazine -- a subscription that I make far …

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This is the meal we had during a break from the armoir assembly. It may sound like a lot of steps but it comes together very quickly. And it was really good -- I loved the soy dressing. The original didn't call for wasabi but I had some wasabi oil from Trader Joe's and decided …

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We recently decided to get a TV armoir to hide the television when not in use and to make the living room look a little nicer. Not wanting to spend thousands of dollars, we opted to buy something we would assemble ourselves. We did and it was pretty much hitchless. Sure, the first item assembled …

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Well, in our case, right-side up. Only because I forgot to invert them. They smelled sooo good. You would understand, really, had you been here. On Good Eats, Alton Brown used peaches, I used white nectarines. I bet you could also use apples or pears...even pineapple. Ha! The cake part seeps down, even though there …

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