Archive for the ‘Comfort’ Category
Friday, December 1st, 2006
After two weeks since the first concert, the second one came.
And unlike the first reception, we had money left over to purchase goodies for the reception.To get into the holiday spirit meant more than just singing traditional carols and holiday songs about dreidels, mistletoe and snow. It meant bringing out ...
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Hooray for chocolate molds and many years of watching Dessert Circus and Jacques Torres working chocolate a million different ways.
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
I have decided that my creative outlet for managing stress is cooking. Cooking, when done properly, seems to take away a lot of other worries and allows me to meditate.Since Thanksgiving at home this year was a small crowd (just my parents and me; my brother stayed at school to ...
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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
I'm in this club at school that does concerts and I always feel that food and music are very much correlated. After a concert, we always have a reception for our guests.
So what do you do when the club only has a limited amount of money and you have a ...
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
The reference, of course, to Oregon Trail. (I can't begin to tell you how many times I had typhoid, low food supplies and risked drowning by not caulking my raft when fording the river...) If you're still wondering if I really do have oxen in the city...no. None at all.So ...
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
Yes, so before Mom's potluck high was over, she made a Polish dish she had at the potluck mentioned in the previous entry.I couldn't hide my excitement, so I ran to tell Eugene about it. And then Viktor.
Lo and behold, they knew exactly what I was talking about and were ...
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Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
Mom decided to embark on a mini culinary experiment and I'm her number one guinea pig, though this may be more by default than by choice. What can I do when I'm the only mouth she has to feed since Dad is out during meetings and my brother's upstate?Mom had ...
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Sunday, September 24th, 2006
In recent months, I have discovered my affinity for the English muffin. Yes, I did not like them as a kid. But now, I'm crazy about them. It's like how I didn't like the crust on bread as a kid and grew into not minding and now I actually enjoy ...
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