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    mise en place with martha

    Thanks to the lovely little mini prep bowls that I received for my birthday, I’ve been able to start practicing the time honored tradition of TV chefs everywhere: mise en place. Literally meaning “everything in place,” it’s the ultimate chef…

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    fun birthday surprises

    I received a few wonderful & unexpected surprises on my birthday (besides Basseterre the bunny — pronounced Bass-Terr) — one including the awesome yellow Tinker Bell shirt from my college (& blogging) buddy Janet! She said she saw it in…

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    let’s throwback forever!

    As if you haven’t noticed by now, Mr. M and I love the beverages… and we’re pretty apt to trying everything out that we see. The latest commercial indulgence:  Pepsi throwback. Now, I was raised in a split soda household:…

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    what’s for dinner: may 4-8, 2009

    [I’ll be posting my weekly “weekday” menus online every week, both for inspiration (my searches through cookbooks) and motivation for me to keep it up. I usually keep our spending around $50/week if I do this… but it inflates itself…

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    tea-ing up with the big boys

    Last weekend, on our return home from San Francisco, we stopped in Berkeley to visit a couple of shops before heading home. While I was taking a pit stop at Peet’s, Mr. M wandered next door to find a wonderful…