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Martha Stewart’s Half-Hour Chicken Gumbo

Posted by Cate under Narrative

Even though I’m admittedly a big fan of Martha Stewart, I have a love/hate relationship with her recipes.  Some work, some don’t, and I know I’m in good company with my success, or lack thereof.  I vividly remember making a Cranberry Upside-Down Cake recipe of hers twice, back-to-back, determined to beat the thing into submission before […]

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Easter 2008 - Pictures in Review

Posted by Cate under Holidays and More

The Prince and the Princess

I didn’t notice my parents’ dog, Beauregard, eyeing the table when I took the picture.  Where there’s food, there’s Beau.

My nearly six-month-old niece Sophie holding Nicholas up, which I thought was adorable.

Our traditional Italian Easter Meat Pie

Da Posse

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Boys vs. Girls

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Are you familiar with the actress Kim Raver?  She used to be on the now-defunct show Third Watch, and now stars on Lipstick Jungle, alongside Brooke Shields and Lindsay Price.   Besides working 15-hour days on the NBC set, she is also mom to two boys, Luke (5) and Leo (born in October).  How does she […]

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White Castle Clones

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This weekend, with The Husband working late on Saturday night, and the kids and I left to our own devices, I wanted to make something fun for them for dinner.  I happened to get an e-mail from Pillsbury last week, extolling the virtues of their pie recipes for Easter dessert, and I started poking around […]

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ARF/5-A-Day #111

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It’s only Tuesday and I am exhausted.  Good news?  Dinner was leftovers from yesterday, so that made tonight easy.  Bad news?  No ARF entry from me, but hey, it happens.  It’s a pretty lean roundup tonight as it is, so seems there might be more leftovers … or hangovers … going around the blogosphere.  It’s […]

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