Fennel*Twist

Since I haven't downloaded the pictures of any of the food I made this weekend (Curry, Strawberry & Spinach Salad, Grilled Chicken w/ White Nectarine Salsa)...and we didn't eat out anywhere, I thought I would post some pictures of the flowers in our yard. One of the nice things about living in a house (as …

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A week or so ago, I made my favorite "fancy dinner" (I think it's jwa's too). Seared ahi tuna, shitake-miso rice and cucumber slaw (I know! I have no idea why I like cucumbers here!). And, yeah, it's more diced than, uh, slaw-shaped, but, it's my menu and I'm callin' it slaw, damn it! The …

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Well, not really, but it was the motivation to paint it and change the appearance. There's only so much Law & Order a person can watch in the afternoon -- or so I've heard. Um, anyway, this is the way the kitchen looks now. Here's what it looked like when we moved in: That said, …

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My mother makes the best chocolate chip cookies ever. She would use the recipe out of the classic red and white checked Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook--the one with the stove burner imprint on the backside of it because she accidentally placed it on a burner once. But I digress, and I only mention it …

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