drinks
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🍴: Mon – coq au vin blanc meatballs with mash and cider-braised carrots Tue – broth and Jello for me, Domino’s for Hampton Wed – Hampton-created orecchiette with bacon and sliced Brussels sprouts in a light cream sauce with leftover Domino’s garlic bites. Thur – Swedish pizza salad with TJ’s garlic gondolas topped with prosciutto,…
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Earlier this week, I finally joined Bluesky and left Instagram because of Zuck/Meta’s terrible decision making on fact checks and hate speech. So, what better excuse to actually update this blog more often? 🍴: We were to supposed to have not one but TWO weekend dinners out, but Winter Storm Cora had other plans. Luckily,…
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We are a week and change away from life returning to normal… err, the most recent normal? So let’s play catch up. Food has still been a bit hit and miss due to rehearsals and gigs. Recent highlights: — the cheater’s Spanish tortilla: did this for a brunch party with the recommended prosciutto and piquillos…
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I’m participating in another August Break from Susannah Conway on Instagram. I’ve really come to appreciate these times of focus every few months. Saturday’s prompt was “glass”, which tied in perfectly with this silly story from Saturday… which I’m only now sharing here on Monday. You don’t follow me for timeliness. ——– On my way…
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OK, if I’m going to celebrate more this year, I guess I need to share all the fun drinks we made for our 1920s cocktail party at the end of last year. And maybe explain what these cooking collabs are all about. An Instagram foodie friend, Dora, introduced me to a group that all cooks…
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Much like one of my favorite fictional heroines, Bridget Jones, I love a good mini-break. Hampton and I originally had plans to do a big French vacation for our 5th/my 40th… but then we bought a house. So we did three mini-breaks this spring and summer instead. And totally saved money, I’m sure. Since I’m…
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Last weekend we took a minibreak to DC for a surprise baby shower and Hampton’s birthday. It started off with a bang. Literally. I was washing my hair Friday morning and heard a massive crash of glass. The globe from the ceiling fan on our upstairs landing had fallen and smashed EVERYwhere. Luckily, I didn’t…
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It was predicted that our area of central NC was going to get hit with a whopper of a storm. And for once, “they” were right. Sunday, we got approximately 14.5″. We usually average less than half of that in an entire year. My choir gig’s Christmas cantata was canceled (and our second show at…
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Yesterday was a beautiful Sunday. I had a voice lesson right after my church gig and got home just as Hampton did from work. We Netflixed and chilled with a late Tuscan lunch and then a clean-the-fridge panzanella with broiled sole. So adult. All that had to happen was my husband walking the dogs while…
Ann Davis-Rowe 