July 2010

Retro-blog: Smitten Kitchen Christmas (December 2009)

July 30, 2010 Retro-blog

Christmas in July! I read that somewhere this morning, and I realized I only had two days left to make this post relevant. It’s no secret that I’m obsessed with Smitten Kitchen, and Nicole is hooked too. We decided to make ourselves a Christmas dinner last December, with everything from SK, and our only other rule was […]

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S’mores Brownies & Peanut Butter Blondies

July 28, 2010 Brownies & Blondies

It was Nicole’s 30th birthday a couple weeks ago, and her boyfriend threw her a surprise party at a lawn bowling club. Since I don’t do sports, and I also don’t own any white articles of clothing (the lawn bowling attire of choice), I didn’t know how this whole thing was going to work out […]

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White Chocolate Banana Cream Pie

July 21, 2010 Pies, Tarts & Pudding

Last summer when Lydia was pregnant with Ethan, I liked to grill her about her cravings to try to find new baking projects. She’s always loved desserts based around bananas - she introduced me to bananas foster many years ago - and one of the first things she asked for was Banana Cream Pie. I made […]

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Star Wars Cookies

July 18, 2010 Cookies

In his 5 short years, Johnny Mac has been obsessed with a variety of things, including, but not limited to, ladybugs, Curious George, gorillas, and other jungle animals of all kinds (“Auntie O-byn, did you know orangutans are the largest tree living mammals in the WORLD?”). But this year, he is obsessed with Star Wars. And for […]

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Strawberry Picking at The Ridge & Skillet Strawberry Jam

July 3, 2010 Breakfast

This was my second summer going strawberry picking in Alexis’ in-laws backyard. I basically show up with my tupperware containers, get down on all fours and crawl through their little strawberry patch and go nuts picking Aletta’s organic strawberries (she doesn’t use any pesticides in their garden). Just one of these little berries has more juicy strawberry […]

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