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This weeks “Tuesdays with Dorie” recipe is a “Fresh Ginger and Chocolate Gingerbread” cake, selected by Heather of Sherry Trifle.
I made this cake on Saturday night.
Because my life is exciting like that.
Other TWD bakers said this cake tastes better the day after baking and I wanted to take it to my [...]

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Me: “It’s freezing out here. It’s a good thing I have these mitten-y glove thingies.” (Yes, in my everyday life I’m quite articulate.)
Reagan: “What?”
Me: “They have places for each finger and then a flap that pulls over and they look like mittens. So they are ‘Gluffins,’ I guess…”
Reagan: [...]

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And now for something completely different….
My dear friend SS and I signed up for “Tuesday’s with Dorie,” (TWD) a bi-weekly food blogger challange in which you make an assigned Dorie Greenspan recipe from the book “Baking: From My Home to Yours.”
I’d never actually made a tart (other than of the “Pop” [...]

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(The kind you eat, not a pet.)
Thank you Food Blogga! And Kona Blue!
The kona kampachi was caught in Hawaii on Sunday, shipped on Monday and arrived on Wednesday. Thus we had super fresh fish last night.
But first we had to get a bit of butchering out of the way!
Meet [...]

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Reagan lied to us. She asked to go to her friend Ashleley’s house and we said “Yes. Are you going anyplace else?”
“No,” she assured us, “just Asheley’s.”
Total B.S.
She and Ash met up with two boys that are in their grade and they walked around town. Ash is dating one of [...]

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This has been a busy week, especially for Reagan, who has had cheerleading, declamation, basketball practice, chorus and a meeting for her upcoming middle school D.C. trip.
Speaking of chorus, last night Reagan told me, “I’m a soprano but want to be an alto and Maggie is an alto and wants to be a [...]

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This morning I got up early to drive Reagan and her friend, V., to Declamation.
V. said “I had a Toaster Strudel this morning.”
I responded, “Oh, yes, I remember when those first came out, when I was a child.”
Reagan’s smart-ass response: “Back when there were dinosaurs?”
Yes, back when there [...]

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I was lying on my bed in my underpants watching Project Runway with my daughter and she said “Can you stop tapping your feet?”
But I’m trying to develop a nervous habit! My thought is it will burn off some extra calories. I told her that maybe I just burnt off a crumb [...]

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Now that my daughter is a cheerleader, instead of hearing me say:
Uh, yah, right, cheerleading is a sport. A sport where you cheer for others playing a different, better sport.
And:
Cheerleaders? A bunch of uck-stay up-ay iches-bay.
And:
God, their skirts are way too short, inappropriate for thirteen-year-olds.
I’ll be saying:
Oh, cheerleading is very athletic. As [...]

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Everyone in my family seems on edge. I don’t know if it’s just that time of year-end of summer vacation-or all the changes that are happening.
Chris started a new job (Yay!) with long hours (Boo!).
Taylor started high school today. (Yay! Sob!)
Reagan has her first “boyfriend.” (Okay, they talk on the phone [...]

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