Archive for June, 2009

174 bottles of wine…

We’ve started on the second, and final, phase of our kitchen expansion and remodeling project. Goodbye 1970′s bar complete with smokey mirrors. Hello huge eat-in kitchen complete with cabinet space! We’ll be back later this summer!

-XOXO

Growing up, one of my very favorite dishes was Hawaiian Chicken. I remembered the sauce on the chicken to be sort of a sweet-and-sour type sauce… a sauce that I could happily eat by the bowlful. It goes to show you how much attention I paid while Mom was cooking because when I tried to run through the dish for my mental shopping list, the description came out something like this:
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Love sometimes makes you do crazy things. Like making a corner of your kitchen smell like someone poured a beer over a pair of old running shoes. On purpose.

My husband’s sandwich bread of choice is sourdough. I’m pretty fond of it myself – the tangy loaf can make any sandwich better. It’s also the only bread that we’re still buying at the store because, well… when it comes to sourdough, I suck. I am a sourdough killer.

And since we’re confessing, I’ve never owned a house plant for more than 3 weeks either… (and I think I just heard the bell pepper plants in my garden wail).
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