Today is my personal holiday – my vanilla is ready. This is a major event because it takes three months for vanilla to be ready, and this girl has no patience. I’ll be able to get through the summer with this vanilla, but what today also means is that I need to start a new […]
read moreMy close friends will tell you that I can wax poetic about the dynamics of love and relationships indefinitely. I never tire of discussing the complex world of pursuing and then maintaining a loving, healthy, relationship. After all, the need to be loved is at the core of human nature and human sexuality. Our feelings […]
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I’ve never been much of a collector of anything. In fact, I’m quite the opposite. I am at my happiest when I am ridding my household of unnecessary items and slipping unused travel mugs into the trash behind my husband’s back. My friend collects snowmen, my brother-in-law collects coins, my grandfather collected stamps and my […]
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I’m envious of people who have hard skills that they can offer to others. Whether it’s to make money, to barter or just to be nice, they have a skill that others need and they can take it anywhere. I have benefited immensely from people like that over the years. Cousin Abby does hair […]
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Let’s just cut to the chase here. I made Irish soda bread and it was just as good (dare I say better?) than my Mother-in-Law’s. There, I said it! For years I have swooned over her Irish soda bread and resolved that I could never make anything to compare. But this girl was destined for […]
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Before I go any further, let me just put this out into the world – I am totally sick from eating too much rugelach dough. Onward… These rugelach prove that sometimes keeping a little mystery about oneself is a good thing. Women hear it all the time; men like some mystery to their partner. In […]
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Although I have spent the past year up to my ears in pie, I have not been inspired to make a tart. Tarts just seem so high maintenance – so pristine with their tight little crumb and perfectly filled shells. It’s like they are the fancy older sister of pie. The one from the Upper […]
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I’ve taken back Tuesday. Tuesday is such a bummer of a day. It does not have the cache that Monday has. Manic Monday. Oh, looks like he has a case of the Mondays. I’ll start on Monday. Hop on Facebook on Sunday night and see how many posts mention Monday. Wednesday has the unfortunate status […]
read more I have a silent competition going on in my office – I want to be the best baker. I want to be the one that brings in a treat and watches my co-workers rush to the table because of my stellar reputation as the workplace baker. Every office has one. The minute word spreads that […]
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There comes a time when you need to leave the pie behind and get down to business. It’s Christmas and I have other baked goods standing in line waiting for some attention. First on the list – my Grandma’s Hungarian Kiflis. I would venture to say that I have been eating Kiflis since before I […]
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