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🍴: Mon – ramen noodle salad with Chinese sausage as inspired by this month’s Food & Wine. Tues – cider vinegar-braised chicken thighs, also from this month’s F&W. Wed – Domino’s. Because we won’t talk too much about what happened last night when Hampton tried to braise chicken thighs before rehearsal when he was already
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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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On our honeymoon, I took a variety of used paperbacks that I left in the libraries of our hotels and other spaces. Ten years later, I have fully joined the ebook space, thanks to the friends who forced a used Kindle on me a few birthdays back — and finally getting approved for NetGalleys, so
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Hampton and I are both back into rehearsals* so weekends are for bigger meals, and tonight may have been our best schnitzel yet. We toasted and ground up leftover soft pretzel from Strudelteig’s last visit to Lesser Known, the fantastic Eastern European-inspired brewery a mile and change from our house, for the crust on this
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As mentioned, I occasionally, er, often read books for Voracious Readers Only. I get free books, authors get reviews to help them sell said books, win/win. The problem is that sometimes I read too, well, voraciously, and Amazon decides I’ve posted too many reviews at one time. I feel super guilty that two of my
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Ok, I know, I know, I said no more reading free books to review after 2019….. and I did hold off longer than expected. But then I found Voracious Readers Only. Or, rather, they found me. Thanks, Instagram ads. VRO offers a LOT of books to choose from, and there’s no penalty for passing on
Ann Davis-Rowe 