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Mole Rojo Day 2

This is how I spent Wednesday.  It was a long, productive, satisfying day in the kitchen, and it only happens quite like this once a year.   Photos Ahoy! yes, I played with the photos again. The frying starts. See the … Continue reading

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Mole Rojo Day 1

Thanksgiving in my house means mole rojo.  If I spread it out over a few days, it’s not quite so overwhelming.  Chiles are seeded, ready to fry.  Pan y tortillas dried, ready to fry.  Sesame seeds and chile seeds and … Continue reading

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Pan de Muerto

It’s delicious, even if the bones the Kid carefully shaped didn’t stick around through the baking. And we still have a little left, after the cousins came over yesterday and searched the house for pan.  My sister-in-law told me that … Continue reading

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Beautiful Things

Oh my.  This lady has some beautiful knits here.   Maybe I can take the brain power to think a little more about the inspiration/themes of the next few things I knit.  Not that I’ll get these results!  http://100milefiberfest.blogspot.com/2008/01/gallery-of-favorites.html I am enamored of  tree … Continue reading

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Tuesday after Lambtown

We’re up!  We’re out!  We’re well-provisioned!  Pretty good for a Monday morning.  (And now it’s Tuesday!  We’re provisioning.) The kiddo and I went to Lambtown on Saturday.  Lovely little show!  It was mostly a kid-directed day.  (Except when I dragged him … Continue reading

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Snapshot of a good day

Time to take down the Easter eggs hanging around the house.  We celebrate Spring, and spring means painted eggs brought by fertile rabbits.  Very confusing thing, Spring.  But it was more like Summer early this week, and nobody could move … Continue reading

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Pea Greens and Asparagus

We’re sharing a veggie box and a fruit box with another family.  Last Friday, we opened the box to a pile of pea greens.  And plenty of other things.  Like asparagus. I cooked a potentially great dinner for myself last … Continue reading

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Sapo Verde to me

Sapo verde to me Sapo verde toooo meeee Sapo verde to me! *** One of these days, I’ll get the pictures off the camera, and one or two into the blog. Foggy yesterday, cleared out enough for a beautiful sunset.  … Continue reading

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Recipe Book, with digressions

I didn’t enter Mason-Dixon’s show and tell – partly because I missed the deadline and partly because I don’t have a box. I think Mom has a box, a plain metal box for index cards, and it might have recipes … Continue reading

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