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Archive for October, 2010

Happy Stand-mixing

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October 17th, 2010 Posted 8:49 am

This happened last night…

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And this….

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Basic White Bread and Spaghetti recipes to test out the stand mixer and pasta attachments.  My kitchen may never be clean again.

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Books and Puppies

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October 2nd, 2010 Posted 8:15 pm

I just finished reading a book that has been on my shelf for a while….

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  I would definitely recommend it to anyone who enjoys Kingsolver.  It was spectacular and it made me miss a few things:

  1. Kentucky (especially the fact that one of the main characters spent her college career in an apartment on Euclid Ave.)
  2. Thunderstorms.  Big, booming, loud thunderstorms.
  3. Writing and talking about novels.  Not enough to go back and take English classes again, but enough to make me want to keep reading Kingsolver.  I have Animal Dreams on my “to read” shelf…it was an assigned reading during grad school, but I don’t remember actually reading it—that seems like a bad sign.  I have also heard good things about The Bean Trees, and have my eye out for a cheap used copy. Any Kingsolver or Kingsolver-esque recommendations?

Unrelated:

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(Click Santana’s awesome face to jump to her blog for more pictures of her new squeaky dragon friend named Pinky.)