I had an awesome chicken salad in an avocado during one of my business trips. It was midnight when I got to my hotel and the only option for food was take out from a nearby deli. And I was very happily surprised by the chicken salad in an avocado dish. I’ve raved about that […]
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A month ago I set a goal for myself: no sweets nor alcohol for 30 days. In this post I’m primarily going to discuss the sweets part. I’ll address the alcohol part in another post. How did I do? I did excellent sticking to my goal. (That doesn’t mean I felt excellent just that I
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I had a salad for lunch. I would dare to bet that none of you have ever seen me eat a salad at a restaurant … because this is the first time I think I’ve ever ordered a salad at a restaurant. It wasn’t too bad … especially with the Red Ale to go with
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Ever wondered how much caffeine was in your Starbucks coffee? Between 6 and 20 mg/oz depending on what type. Here’s the chart with all the info. Diet Coke (my drink) has 3.75 mg/oz and Mountain Dew has 4.5 mg/oz. So coffee is worse than Mountain Dew!
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www.flickr.com This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from the Tortilla de patatas group pool. Make your own badge here. Maybe some of you remember the Tortilla de Patatas that I made – my first ever. It’s now part of the Tortilla de patatas group on Flickr!
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We had our annual crayfish party! Frank blogged about it over at Life of a Hunter, An evening with friends and crawdads! We had a great time and really enjoyed visiting with everyone. Here are some pictures and here are some more. (I’d put a Flickr badge here but Flickr won’t let me specify someone
I had yummy spinach crepes at Cafe Mason in San Francisco yesterday. They came with an awesome fruit salad that included everything from blackberries and strawberries to melon and bananas. Just be sure you leave any crying babies at home as they are sure to let everyone know that "Crying babies are not welcome here
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This husband and wife team is trying to eat off $10 for two weeks. They each have their own $10 and their own stash of food. his blog: http://protoshell.blogspot.com/ her blog: http://jadedcapitalist.blogspot.com/ It’s interesting because Frank and I were just talking about this on the way to work yesterday. What would you eat or buy
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Doesn’t Continental know you aren’t supposed to microwave frozen pizza? (This was Jacob’s favorite meal though. I should have given him my pizza as well.)
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We’re chartering a sailboat from the Moorings for seven days and we had to order all of groceries ahead of time. It was hard to plan all of our needs for a week in an environment we aren’t used to. How much water do you need? How many cookies? What to eat for breakfast? We
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