One of my holiday memories from childhood is going to my mom's sister's home to decorate stacks and stacks of sugar cookies with sugar icing dyed with food coloring. While fun and festive, I found it frustrating. I was never able to make them come out as neat and nice as my aunt and my mom were able to do, using butter knives to apply the icing.

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When I was a kid, the smell of coffee, especially stale machine drip coffee, evoked "travel" for me. Because the only time I smelled the stuff was when I was in an airport, a diner, or a motel.

Today, it's the taste of Starbucks Green Tea Frap, that make me feel like I'm travelling, because about the only time I buy one is when I'm at an airport

In the mid-90s I was working for a very small business network troubleshooting company, that was owned by my cousin Clark and his friend. We all were at a nice business lunch to celebrate getting a big client. We went to a steakhouse I hadn't been to before, and the special of the day was New York Steak ( Read more... )

A few days ago, while shopping at the market, I observed a waxed cake of Wensleydale, complete with a label showing Wallace and Gromit. On a lark, I bought some.

It's yummy(According to Wikipedia, Aardman had Wallace like Wensleydale merely because it was amusing to animate him speaking the word. This passing pop culture reference saved the ( Read more... )

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I saw this, and thought of elfs...

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Lentil Pilaf cooks in a rice cooker just fine.

Convienient and yummy!