keep passing the open windows

It’s a given:
1. If “Napoleon Dynamite” is on TV, I’ll watch it.
2. When I drop off the kids at school in the morning I will say “Have a great day. I love you!”
3. And they will respond “Yah, whatever.”
4. If I’m a passenger in your car I will say “SLOW [...]

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Friday night, serving a cookie to my son, I asked “How is it?”
Mr. Picky replied, “Ugh, not very good; I don’t like marshmallows.”
“Taylor, those aren’t marshmallows, those are white chocolate chips.”
He proceded to eat four more.
The mind is a powerful thing.
Or:
A brain is a terrible thing to taste?
I know it’s something like that.
Recalling the [...]

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This weeks Tuesday’s with Dorie recipe is “Word Peace Cookies.”
They are quite delicious, no matter what my son with the unsophisticated tastes says. He thought they were “too salty.” But then again, he doesn’t like guacamole or grilled cheese. He’s a weirdo.

Poo on him!
And on my boss who [...]

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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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Yesterday was Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Day and, instead of marching in a parade, my dear friend Secret Server came over to our house to bake a cake. A “Berry Surprise Cake” picked by Mary Ann of “Meet Me in the Kitchen.”
(This reminds me of a Dr. MLK, [...]

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Comments posted on the “Tuesdays With Dorie” blog about this recipe lead me to believe that either great minds think alike or I’m not very original! Almost everyone seemed to be making these muffins with chili. I didn’t make chili but kept with the southwestern soup theme and made “Chipotle chicken and [...]

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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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