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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Pumpkin smoothie

Saturday, November 19, 2011

I’ve been wanting to try Brett Bara’s pumpkin smoothie recipe since I first saw it. I finally got all of the ingredients this week and can report that it’s delicious, creamy and sweet and the tiniest bit tart from the cider. Measuring all of the ingredients was a little fiddly, but I have a good [...]

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Raw milk

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Last winter, my brother took me to a farm where he sometimes buys cheese for his restaurant so that we could meet the farmer, a woman whose hand, when she shook mine, was so calloused and beautifully used that my own soft and varnished paws made me feel like the last coddled and inbred remnant [...]

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Dashing

Monday, November 14, 2011

It’s a little hard to imagine, on this 69F November day, that I’m going to need these anytime soon, but I know the day will come. I wished for fingerless mittens all last winter, since the heating in the office where I work was unpredictable at best. I could have broken down and bought some, [...]

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Happy haulidays!

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

So, Chronicle Books, publishers of all sorts of awesome stuff, is having a pretty remarkable giveaway. They’re giving away $500 worth of books to one blogger and one commenter on the winning blog post, plus $500 worth of books to a charity of the winner’s choice (ETA: I’d go with FirstBook). Check out the details [...]

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