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This was a very quick, last minute addition to an enchilada dinner not too long ago. I wanted to have black beans but I wanted a little more than just black beans. I surveyed the cabinet, fridge and freeze and came up with this side. The other handy thing about this salad is that it's …

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Indian Summer Thank you, Photoshop Last night, I took our three contenders, Indian Summer, Red Copper and Henna (jwa got the sample finally), laid them out, took pictures and made somewhat-crappy-yet-still-helpful photoshop images showing each floor choice color. Henna The whole look that we are going for is relatively bright and cheery with warm tones. …

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Since I spend so much time cooking and making messes in the kitchen, it's an environment that is very important to me. Since we've moved into the house, I've painted the walls, the cabinets, gotten new hardware for the cabinets and we've replaced the old refrigerator. Now, we are starting to investigate new kitchen floor …

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Now that I no longer have a theme for this week or any plan at all, really, I can go back to just posting about meals with no rhyme or reason. Yesterday -- frozen yogurt and today -- turkey meatloaf! Awesome. This is a meatloaf based on a recipe that I originally saw on Good …

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This, unfortunately, is a post with only one image. Perhaps because I wasn't sure it was going to work out -- but it did. It was actually very good. Goes to show you that when a recipe that you are following doesn't turn out like it's supposed to, sometimes you end up with something that's …

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