‘Temple Run’ Indian-Spiced Meatballs with Raita (and a GIVEAWAY!!)
Anyone play the game, Temple Run? You know, the video game for phones and tablets where this great big, manic, hybrid gorilla-vulture creature chases your character as you dodge fire, rushing...
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We spent last weekend at a rental house in the Catskill mountains with some friends from college and a few of their close friends. 10 adults. 8 little boys ages 6 month to 6 years. An endless supply of...
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It was back in one of my undergraduate teacher education classes, that I was first introduced to the debate over nature vs. nurture. How much of our personality, strengths, challenges, and interests...
View ArticleEasy Indoor Slider Burgers with Spicy-As-You-Like-It Special Sauce
It’s burger season. It’s also unpredictable, chance-of-rain just about everyday season, which might just foil your grilling burgers plan, unless you’re like my dad who grills in snow, sleet, and rain....
View ArticleTriple Ginger Apple Muffins
If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, then my little James is going to have the doctors bolting in the other direction. The kid eats, oh, anywhere from 5 – 10 apples a day. No joke. At one point, I...
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Is anybody else planning on getting their two-year-old a Harry & David fruit basket for Christmas this year?? I’m guessing I might be the only one, and yet, I’m 99.99% certain that it will be his...
View ArticleCreamy Non-Dairy Tropical Smoothie
((Sheepishly sneaks back into the blogging room, pretending as if she hasn’t been absent for the past three months)) If the look he gave me at the doctor’s office is any indication, I’m going to be in...
View ArticleTequila-Braised Chicken
It seems that I blinked and almost two years went by since I’ve written. A lot has happened in two years. We renovated and sold our old house, then bought another house, packed and moved. We took the...
View ArticleShaved Brussells Sprouts, Bacon, and Potato Hash
Physicists define entropy as: a measure of the disorder or randomness in a closed system; inevitable and steady deterioration of a system or society. Sometimes my home feels like a case study in...
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My four year old, James, and I are in the midst of an intense, ongoing biblical debate regarding the book of Genesis, more specifically the story of creation. James was taught in school that God...
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