Barbara on June 4th, 2010

Today was the last day of school and, as usual, I was scurrying around the craft room making gifts for the teachers.  Also per usual, I was out of suitably sized gift bags in which to package the teacher goodies, so off to JoAnn I went!  Naturally, I headed over to the paper gift supplies, [...]

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Barbara on May 27th, 2009

We’ve managed to eat in pretty much all week. Nothing terribly exotic, mind you, but here is a catch-up posting for the week: Saturday: We marinated a batch of chicken drumsticks in sundried tomato vinaigrette and Jon grilled them outside along with ears of (really) fresh sweet corn. Salad rounded it all out. Sunday: Had [...]

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Barbara on May 9th, 2009

Another easy on the kitchen meal tonight – Fresh Salmon-Cilantro Burgers.  Way yummy, way easy!  Even the resident ‘is it fishy-fish’ critic says it was ‘awesome good, mama’.  We added sliced avocado instead of lettuce and served with some deli salads and fruit salad for an easy hot-day meal.

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