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Cabbage and Spinach Salad with Lime and Peanuts

January 27, 2012

This recipe was adapted from the Lee Brothers’ Cabbage and Lime Salad with Roasted Peanuts from their book Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavor. It’s a wonderfully, fresh, tasty, winter salad. 6 cups shredded red cabbage 6 cups shredded green cabbage 4 cups fresh spinach, stemmed and cut into thin slices 1 lime, [...]

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Chocolate Withdrawal

March 26, 2008

We spent this weekend with my in-laws and I think I gained back all the weight I lost over the last 8 months.  My jeans were tight when we left and I spent today going through chocolate withdrawal.  In case you don’t have a German mother-in-law, visits to a GMIL could qualify as world class [...]

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Video Wednesday: Random Muvee Creation

March 19, 2008

My new Flip Camcorder came with some very basic video editing software from Muvee.  I actually like its simplicity, but you can’t hardly do anything with the software, so I followed the software link to the Muvee website.  According to the website, with Muvee AutoProducer, you can: Shoot it, muvee it and share it. Instantly create and share the kind [...]

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Maenner

October 16, 2007

Note to self: do not leave husbands in charge of children when football matches are on. Saturday, Rainer’s best friend Tobias came to visit with his wife Katrin and two beautiful kids, Hanna, who’s almost 5, and Simon, who’s 2 and a half. I made cookies, which the kids, and unexpectedly Charlie too, gobbled up. [...]

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A weekend of success

September 9, 2007

Friday night, Cliff and Sarah joined us for Thai dinner. I ended up not having the time to make anything but the Panang Beef beforehand, so they (and Rainer) were enlisted as my sous chefs when they arrived, and let me tell you, it’s nice to have sous chefs! Our meal consisted of the aforementioned [...]

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Woohoo!

June 23, 2007

Exactly one month (with a plus or minus two week interval) till my due date! I guess I’m now officially in my ninth month of pregnancy. I can’t wait to meet Oliver! This weekend, Rainer’s good friend Harry is visiting from Canada. They (or at least Rainer, I was a little confused about this) are [...]

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Quick Update

June 22, 2007

If you read the comments to the last post, you’ll find out that Rainer volunteered me to make a dish for an office Grillparty yesterday. On Tuesday night, he came home and informed me that he’d told folks that I’d make satay. Wha…wha…what? It seems my loving husband completely forgot my pregnancy aversion to touching [...]

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