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I don’t have a better name for this - perhaps someone will come up with something brilliant.  But here it is - I’m going to be doing a year long cooking project.  The idea springs from the Julie/Julia project, but the core of it comes from my friend Bryan - who pinged me to ( Read more... )

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A dear friend of mine had a lovely idea for this last Christmas. Knowing that money is tight for both of our families, she suggested that we exchange baked goods as gifts. Perfect! Except there was a slight complication. My friend cannot eat wheat. This detail changed a no- ( Read more... )

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I’d like to give a hale and hearty welcome to Sara - who will be a contributing writer on the site - as well as my co-host for the Modern Domestic Geek Podcast.

Sara is a writer, mother, domestic engineer, and soon to be work-at-home mom. She’s also been a friend for many ( Read more... )

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This is sort of a media overview - Dan made his five best of movies of the year post over at Geekadelphia. I want to talk about the best book I read, the best game I played, but I wanted to do something different with movies. So here are some of my Bests:

Best book I ( Read more... )

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It’s the day after Christmas, which was quite nice, but for the disaster that the XBox360 has been.  The first one red-ringed out of the box.  So we got another one.  That one won’t play old X-Box games.  Sigh.  But for the most part, it was a nice day.  I have much old TV ( Read more... )

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So we got a snowstorm this weekend.  Which meant from Friday night after seeing Avatar, we didn’t leave the house until about 2pm today.  And was I a productive domestic goddess?  NO.  I was a lazy, stinky gamer - who managed to get a couple of levels on each of my ( Read more... )

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I haven’t posted this week - actually, for a while it seemed the week was crawling by, but now it’s Thursday, and I’m not sure what happened.  Some weeks are like that.  Sunday after the dinner party, I did manage to bang out some more cookies, make home made ( Read more... )

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It was a busy day. We had a dinner party last night and I baked two batches of Christmas cookies with multiple steps and drizzling.

So what did I make yesterday? An apple pie, Buckeye cookies, caramel macchiato cookies, a teriyaki beef fillet, roasted garlic mashed ( Read more... )

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I have an idea brewing for a project for the new year. I have goals for next year, and for one - I want to do a cooking project - similar to the Julie/Julia project, but something that won’t have Dan close to walking out the door, and something a little more timely. ( Read more... )