From the monthly archives:

April 2011

when you need comfort food…

April 20, 2011
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… make some meatloaf.  I’m not even sure why we thought of meatloaf, but we made it.  I couldn’t even tell you how many years it has been since I’ve seen it, much less ate it.  It did it’s job, though.  Fills you up, makes you feel warm and fuzzy, makes you sleepy so you [...]

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strawberry season

April 16, 2011
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It’s strawberry season and it kind of crept up really fast.  Then again the first quarter of this year has went by rather quickly for me.   On thursday, my mom brought me two of these buckets from a local farm and all I wanted to do was make jam. Last year I didn’t get to [...]

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biscuits & more simple thinking

April 6, 2011

I was going through my reader last night and catching up on blogs that I haven’t read in a while.   The moment I read this post on Orangette, I knew I had to have those biscuits for breakfast. I’m a southern girl who loves biscuits (okay bread in general) and I’ve never been able to [...]

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She’s a year old

April 3, 2011
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It’s been a year, but it really doesn’t seem that long.  Bella has went from sleeping 80% of the day to running around and mimicking everything we do.  She’s her own little person.  While I’m happy and excited to watch her grow into herself, I’m scared to death of the years to come.  I miss [...]

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the great bake disaster

April 2, 2011
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Maybe the title should be ‘The Great Cake Pop Massacre’. It’s been a long weekend and sunday isn’t even here yet!  I started off mid afternoon yesterday baking 70 cupcakes, some odd number cake balls, a mini cake for Bella, and some potato salad.  I’ve never made cake balls, though it sure looked pretty darn [...]

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