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House
April

2016 – Year of the Kitchen

This is what my kitchen looked like right after Christmas so as you might imagine, I haven’t cooked beyond heating things up in the microwave or toaster oven for a few

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2015
Life
April

Looking Back at 2015

I love looking back at these reflective surveys each each and seeing what I was thinking, feeling, and experiencing at the time. Some things never change, and some things do,

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The Better Side of Vintage Recipes

Buzzfeed has been abuzz with articles lately on “vintage recipes” but they are focusing on the real atrocities of the era, like basically anything with gelatin in it or that included

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Food
April

King Cake Alternatives

The past few years I’ve brought king cakes to my offices, which in turn made people like me more and question my heritage. I just have to put it out

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