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Entries from November 2007

green bean casserole of doom

November 24th, 2007 · No Comments

 I don’t know why, but I’ve been on the downside streak of bad cooking. The green bean casserole didn’t turn out the way I wanted. I thought that I’d do it from scratch and follow that neat recipe on Good Eats, but the beans were still underdone and kinda crunchy. And the onion topping was [...]

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Tags: cooking · meh

Book Review

November 20th, 2007 · No Comments

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
Okay - this was the first book Glenn gave me to read. It took me a while to get into reading it. Once I did, though, I burned through it pretty quickly. My impression was there was a lot of descriptive passages that bogged it down for me. I wanted [...]

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Tags: books

hola bitchola

November 20th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s almost Thanksgiving again. I feel bad that Glenn has to work again on Thursday, but I am glad that he’ll be home on Saturday and Sunday. I want to make him something really special and yummy to eat… but the last few kitchen experiments have been less than… savory. 
We got a KICK ASS Kitchen Aid mixer and I had [...]

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Tags: cooking · dork