food
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Trip to Penzey’s
Yesterday we went to Penzey’s to get some spices.
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Donny says vacuum!
When Jessica makes dinner, it’s something made from scratch – just short of killing the cow in the back yard, anyway. When I make dinner, it’s frozen, and more often than not made of cheese and pizza sauce. Tonight, then, was a rarity. I, being in charge of dinner, helped Namine make frozen chicken pot…
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Making biscuits
We were going to make biscuits and gravy yesterday, but I came down with the flu. Since I’m feeling a little better today – by that I mean I felt that I could have more than Jello and 7-Up – we made them tonight.
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Making guacamole
I keep writing about making food, but really, is there a better activity the whole family can participate in? Preparing dinner doesn’t have to fall to one person; the kids can join in too. Namine’s inability to reach the counter by herself necessitates some accommodations like using a footstool as a table. But there’s no…
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A love of cooking
Technically, I suppose this is baking. But whatever it is, if it has to do with making food, Namine loves it.
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Making a cake
A cold day deserves a hot dinner. To that end, we had potato soup with bacon bits and hot toasty bread. For dessert, Namine and I made applesauce cake with cream cheese frosting.
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Chopped egg
Last weekend, I made Namine breakfast so Jessica could sleep in. She wanted a fried egg. I’m not a good cook (or deserving of the title “cook” at all) by any stretch of the imagination, but I did my best. It did not turn out well, but that didn’t matter.
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Love tastes gross
Namine helped my aunt with a lot of cooking and baking over the weekend. She was particularly proud of the egg bake she helped make. As we sat down to eat, I said, “It tastes like you put a lot of love into this egg bake, Namine.” I know, but I didn’t because that would…
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Cookie day 2013
Jessica and her sisters had been planning today for some time. Today was cookie day… or perhaps, as I think of it, Cookie Day. We estimate a number of greater than six hundred cookies were made in the course of six hours. That’s not bad for having a single oven.
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Like father, like daughter
Last night, Namine and I made beer bread and chocolate cake. The bread was just part of dinner, and the cake was in celebration of Jessica’s birthday. (She is celebrating another anniversary of her 21st birthday, in case you were wondering.) While we were eating dinner, I noticed Namine doing something… familiar.
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Sleeping Namine
My friend Matt came home from Guam a couple weeks ago. He came over tonight so we could hang out for a while before he has to go back. Unfortunately, we didn’t think to take his picture with Namine until after she was asleep. I tried waking her up, but that didn’t really work. When…
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Sesame Street Live
My mom treated Namine to an early Christmas present: taking her to a showing of Sesame Street Live. She loved it.