Thanksgiving

Milestones

December 31, 2011

My blog hit a milestone this month.  I can only attribute it to one thing……more interaction with others.  It’s true, the more you comment on other blogs, the more people will come and comment on yours. Simple logic is really the hardest for most to follow.  So, even tho I said I wasn’t making any [...]

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Feeding Time at the Zoo

December 28, 2011

There is another hoopla happening in the news.  This time it involves Target and a breastfeeding mother.  She claims her child woke up hungry so she found a spot in the ladies wear to sit and breastfeed.  She admits Target employees offered her a fitting room to go to so she would have some privacy [...]

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Holiday Dinner

December 9, 2011

I missed out on making Thanksgiving Dinner for everyone, but got on the ball early and have everyone invited over for Christmas Dinner.  Bought a roast beast yesterday and put it in the freezer and will buy a ham soon thanks to a gift card from Smart & Final (it was a thank you for [...]

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Thankful to Have Choices – Even When I Make Poor Ones

November 24, 2011

Most of you know already where I am today and what I am doing. Some of you even know part of the reason why. But mostly it’s my own fault that I am alone on a family holiday.  A few years ago I made the choice to join my mother and sisters back East on [...]

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Carmelized Parsnip and Farro Dressing with Sage Browned Butter

November 20, 2011

When I attended the Thanksgiving Cooking Class at Simple Gourmet a few weeks ago, this was my favorite recipe that night. Ingredients 9 Tbl Butter 1 White Onion finely diced 4 Cups finely diced Parsnips 1 Cup finely diced Celery 1 Tbl fresh chopped Thyme Salt and Pepper to taste 8 Cups cooked Farro 2 [...]

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Simple Gourmet Thanksgiving

November 16, 2011

It’s time for everyone to be planning their menus and laying out their shopping lists for the big Thanksgiving Meal. Last week I attended a cooking class at Simple Gourmet LA and learned how to make some new dishes for this Thanksgiving.  I even tasted some new foods (well, new to me). We started off [...]

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Good Service is NOT a thing of the Past

December 1, 2009

On our drive up to the Sault, we stop at the Casino in St. Ignace to kind of do our warm up exercises on the slots before hitting Kewadin. Upon leaving the casino Erika lowered her driver’s side window to tease me and could not get it to go back up.  Uh oh! Mind you, [...]

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Thanksgiving Weekend

November 30, 2009

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Bar Night

November 29, 2009

The day before Thanksgiving is supposedly the Biggest Bar night of the year. Really? I have never heard of that before, and yet, we heard it on the news a hundred times over and over all day long. I have heard that it is the biggest revenue day for restaurants since everyone is cooking the [...]

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A Very Monkey Christmas – updated with winner

November 24, 2009

I was asked to host a preview party for this adorable new Christmas cartoon.  I jumped at the chance if for no other reason than to get Erika and Jackson to come up a day early to Detroit, lol. I put out the invites on Facebook but we had some last minute cancellations.  The movie [...]

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