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An Owed Post…

Wow, it has been what feels like forever and a lifetime since I last posted (oh right, it was). My apologies. I am so excited to be kicking off the new year with the CTB Ladies again! We have a great new book that is open on my night stand…A Homemade Life (as Marilla mentioned). [...]

Betty meet Emily

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you are all recovering from the holidays and working on those New Years Resolutions. It is such a fresh feeling time of the year that often makes me pause to think about life, love and the pursuit of happiness (or where I am doing shitty and how to improve). [...]

Yowza…Gnocchi!!!

I have one word to describe my attempt at making gnocchi…”YOWZA!!” To say it was a disaster is an understatement. I believe the picture of my gnocchi speaks for itself. I knew going into this that this recipe was not going to be easy at all for a novice cook. But I figured what do [...]

Happy Gnocchi New Year!

Hello Everyone! I hope this new post finds you all well,after enjoying your holiday (or surviving it) and looking forward to a kick A$$ New Year! I haven’t written in awhile and I just want to send a special Thank You to each of these CTB girls. The few weeks leading up to the holidays [...]

Just a quick thank you…

I know everyone’s busy with Christmas, getting ready to make our gnocchi and if you’re Jeanine- being at Disney! But I just wanted to thank Yoyo at topstitch.org for spotlighting us this week for ‘Web Crawler Wednesday’! It’s sweet of her to plug us and I know we all appreciate it. Thank you, Yoyo! So [...]

Some random 3 a.m. thoughts on blogging, cooking & authors.

As we near the end of our first book, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti, get closer to the start of our second book, Garlic & Sapphires, and having just watched the movie Julie & Julia, I started thinking about all sorts of things: blogging, cooking (and blogging about it), and reading books and [...]

Sometimes, trans fats are just necessary

Well, as Marilla and Brianne have already posted, our CTB club finally got the chance to meet up at Franny’s and Bar(n), which, as previously reported, was a BLAST. I am a bit sad that we are all coming to a close with “I love, I lost, I made Spaghetti”, but I am incredibly thrilled [...]

Microwave Queen learns to use the oven

I dragged Shaun on Saturday afternoon to Whole Foods because I wanted to make the “Food Club Pork Roast”. The pork loin I wanted to buy was $8.99 per pound. That’s pretty expensive when I wasn’t even sure I was going to be able to make it without burning it! I ended up buying pork [...]

Giulia and I go Sans Fat (almost)

Wow, I cannot believe it has been a week since we have finished with Giulia. I am sooooo looking forward to possibly meeting her and of seeing all of these SHA Yes Bookery-Cookery girls. I am starting to feel that this blog is not only following the many books I am sure we will read [...]

All good things must come to an end.

No- not our blog! But our first book selection, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti. We all thoroughly enjoyed this book, and I think we can all agree every recipe we tried from it was aces, that we could relate to it in so many ways, and that we were all very sad when [...]