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Friday Five #3

Friday Five #3

Today is my last day of work before vacation and I’m definitely having a little “vacation brain” kicking in early. I have a couple of things I need to finish and document for my co-workers who are covering for me next week and then I 

Whole Grain Buttermilk Waffles

Whole Grain Buttermilk Waffles

We have a weekend routine around here since we bought the house. Every Saturday Zach makes breakfast (including his amazing buttermilk biscuits) to fuel us for whatever house or yard or landscaping related project we’re tackling. There’s always something to be done; rocks to haul, 

Friday Five #2

Friday Five #2

It’s been typical late spring weather here in the Atlanta area, which is to say that it’s been unpredictable and all over the place. Highs in the 80s, lows in the 40s, some rain, some sun, and everything in between. However the garden at the 

Friday Five #1

Friday Five #1

New feature starting today. Five random things from the week every Friday. ONE This week I got my first subscription delivery of flowers from Bouqs.com. I decided to try out their small bouquet farmhouse subscription. I’m pretty happy with the bouquet I received, but realized 

New House, New Garden, New Food!

New House, New Garden, New Food!

No apologies for leaving this blog dormant for so long; instead I’m just going to jump right back in with updates and posts. There’s been a lot of change over the last year and it’s time to start documenting and posting and adding the “life” 

Posole

Posole

I shared my blog with some co-workers today and got called out for slacking! (You know who you are!) So since we’ll be on vacation over the next week, I’m going to take the time to de-slack and repost some older recipes and some recipes 

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

I don’t have words to describe how I feel about RBGs death at this particular time but this spoke to me. From a post on FB:—–There’s a few posts going around reminding folks that since RBG is Jewish, the proper thing to say about her 

Blue Cheese Dressing

Blue Cheese Dressing

[Skip to recipe] I love blue cheese dressing but have always been disappointed in store bought varieties. Most of them have added sugar for some reason and are often too sweet for my taste. For a while you could buy the fresh made dressing from 

Air Fryer Roasted Almonds

Air Fryer Roasted Almonds

This is a really quick and easy snack you can make in your air fryer in less than 10 minutes. Almonds are a big thing in my house. We usually buy a 5# bag of raw almonds from Costco a couple of times a month. 

2020

2020

Like every other lapsed blogger in the history of blogging, I periodically make a promise to blog more or “get back to blogging” or whatever. And like every other lapsed blogger, I generally don’t for whatever reason. Life gets in the way, as the saying 

Sausage & Spinach Sous-vide Egg Bites

Sausage & Spinach Sous-vide Egg Bites

It’s finally FALL here in north Georgia. After a couple of days of rain, we have a sunny, cool, breezy day that feels like the seasons have finally started to change. We may still get a short burst of “third summer” in the next couple 

Chesapeake Bay & Charleston  – Vacation

Chesapeake Bay & Charleston – Vacation

I’m back from vacation and it was an amazing, relaxing, joyful, food-filled week. Settle in for a bunch of photos and a fried oyster recipe at the end (or, if you’d rather, skip the narrative and go straight to the recipe at the end of