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  • Pots and Pans

    When I was in senior in college, I found a massive Le Creuset pot at a thrift store for $10. It was bright yellow and I was instantly smitten with it. I remember trying to talk my small town thrift store into discounting the price, but even they knew what [...]
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    Fetched: November 06, 2009, 6:02am EST

  • NaBloPoMo – Unofficially

    You may have noticed that there's been more activity on this blog in the last few days than in the whole previous month. That's because it's NaBloPoMo, the month during which people all across the world commit to post on their personal blogs every day for 30 days straight. Thing [...]
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    Fetched: November 04, 2009, 11:51pm EST

  • Pick a Sports Columnist, Any Sports Columnist

    Tonight I got home a little later from work than normal, which means that I saw a different crop of people waiting for the elevators than I typically do (funny how when you travel along well-rutted time paths, how you always encounter the same faces). There were two people talking [...]
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    Fetched: November 04, 2009, 11:51pm EST

  • Clean Laundry Mountain

    In my family, my mother is the chief laundry officer. She takes the movement of clothing from clean to dirty to clean and folded once more very seriously. Tee-shirts get folded so that they stack precisely and fit most efficiently in the drawers. Pants are vigorously shaken before being smoothed [...]
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    Fetched: November 04, 2009, 11:51pm EST

  • Applesauce

    I spent the day doing a variety of kitchen-based activities. The thing I'm most delighted with? The ten pints of applesauce this pot yielded. Soon, a recipe (actually, more of a technique) will be up on Food in Jars, but for now, I'm just reveling in the satisfying abundance of [...]
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    Fetched: November 04, 2009, 11:51pm EST

  • End of July check-in

    Wow. What happened to July? I am positively gobsmacked by the speed with which time is passing. I realize I should be used to it now, life has been accelerating ever since I graduated from college, but I still can't help but be startled by it. What's new? Well, I was' [...]
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    Fetched: November 01, 2009, 12:01pm EST

  • Garden Update

    My garden has been in the ground for just about a month now, and it's really starting to catch up with the other plots around me. I've got one little zucchini and bunches of flowers that make me hopeful for many more. The cucumbers are taking over and are blooming' [...]
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    Fetched: November 01, 2009, 12:01pm EST

  • Wedding Vows

    Scott and I got married to one another on Saturday, September 26th. It was an amazing day and while the weather wasn't quite as warm as I would have liked, the rain held off until just after we finished cleaning up. The food our friends and family brought to share' [...]
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    Fetched: November 01, 2009, 12:01pm EST

  • New Jar Storage

    There's a wall in my kitchen that, when rapped strongly, always sounded hollow. The storage space in my little galley comes at a premium and so I've frequently wished that I could bash into that empty space and add a few more shelves. Well, this week, my dream is coming' [...]
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    Fetched: November 01, 2009, 12:01pm EST

  • Wedding Weather

    Right now, this is the weather forecast for the day of our wedding. This is perfect. I need it to stay exactly like this. If you are so inclined (and if you believe in such things), I would so appreciate positive thoughts and prayers in the direction of the weather, [...]
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    Fetched: November 01, 2009, 12:01pm EST

  • Camp Tockwogh 2009

    It pains me that this site has become nearly defunct in recent days, but at the moment, the bulk of my energy is going into maintaining Food in Jars, making things to feature over there and getting everything ready for the wedding. However, I've got a few moments right now and' [...]
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    Fetched: November 01, 2009, 12:01pm EST

  • Sending Back the Sigg

    I've carried a water bottle with me since high school. Back in those early days, I reused a large disposable bottle that I carried around in an insulated carrier I picked up at Eddie Bauer (EB was way cool during the 1990s in Portland, OR). When I went to college,' [...]
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    Fetched: November 01, 2009, 12:01pm EST

  • Ruined kettle

    I don't lose things and I rarely break things. Ever since I was a kid, I've taken really good care of my stuff. That's why when I do get distracted and ruin something, sort of rocks my world and sends me racing to repair or replace the damaged object. A couple [...]
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    Fetched: November 01, 2009, 12:01pm EST

  • A New Fork You! (Fork Off 1)

    Back in the days before getting married to one another was even a remote possibility, Scott and I spent a lot of time together making a series of silly cooking videos. Once we finally got our heads out of respective asses and figured out that being together made an enormous [...]
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    Fetched: November 01, 2009, 12:01pm EST

  • Post-Wedding Processing

    In the two weeks since Scott and I returned from our honeymoon, I've been feeling a little lost. For so many months, my energy and focus was directed towards making everything come together for September 26th that once the day was past, I felt a little uncertain, directionless. I realize' [...]
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    Fetched: November 01, 2009, 12:01pm EST

  • Toast and ducking neighbors

    I used my lunch hour today to run a few errands. In my last 15 minutes, I flew into my apartment to grab some lunch (I hate buying food when I know I have the makings for a wonderful salad in the fridge, all ready to be combined). Standing in [...]
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    Fetched: April 11, 2009, 8:25am EDT

  • My 20th floor neighborhood

    Despite the fact that I've lived in my apartment building for seven years, I realized recently that I've never allowed myself to feel totally comfortable in the community of the building. In the beginning, it was because I was so much younger than the other people living around me (in [...]
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    Fetched: March 31, 2009, 6:21pm EDT

  • Breathlessly Catching Up

    The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of motion and activity, in which I wake up each morning, trying to orient myself to the ways in which life is different from how it was the day before. Two Saturdays ago, Scott and I were waiting in the parking garage, planning [...]
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    Fetched: March 20, 2009, 5:03pm EDT

  • Fork You Live is cooking with beer this Saturday!

    Tonight marks the beginning of the second annual Philly Beer Week and so we've turned Fork You Live this Saturday over to the theme of beer. We'll be making a beer-braised brisket (I'll make one ahead of time, so that there will be plenty for tasting), ale-braised cabbage (with caraway' [...]
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    Fetched: March 05, 2009, 9:24pm EST

  • Twenty-one years

    Several times today, I've found myself in conversations with people in which we exclaim over the fact that today is the first day of March (and it's coming in like a lion here in Philly, with 8 to 10 inches of snow expected in the next 12 hours). However, it' [...]
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    Fetched: March 02, 2009, 12:22am EST

  • The Bear-Man calls

    Sometime early this afternoon, while was sitting at my desk, hunched over my lunchtime salad, my cell phone started vibrate. I didn't recognize the number, but was intrigued enough to pick up (when you have a sister who's an itinerant folksinger, you just never know). A man's voice was on the' [...]
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    Fetched: February 25, 2009, 6:26pm EST

  • Being driven and driving

    Yesterday was one of those perfect Sundays, where there were no pressing commitments or even a reason to leave the apartment. We lazed around, making breakfast just before noon and climbing back into bed to watch TV around 2 pm. However, I've come to discover that I'm not particularly comfortable [...]
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    Fetched: February 23, 2009, 4:52pm EST

  • The best of me on Slashfood

    I've been working on a project that has me sorting through some of the earliest posts I wrote at Slashfood. I'm finding that there are quite a few that I've enjoyed re-reading and so I thought there might be a few of you who'd be interested in seeing what I [...]
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    Fetched: February 19, 2009, 2:30pm EST

  • Time picks Slashfood as a Best Blog 2009

    Since July 12, 2007, not a day has gone by where I did not spend a portion of my waking hours attending to Slashfood. I've written nearly half a millon words across 1,700 posts, devised features, taken pictures and offered up some of my most treasured recipes (the granola recipe' [...]
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    Fetched: February 17, 2009, 8:58pm EST

  • Without a coat

    This morning I went to work without a coat on. I exercised* before work this morning and even after taking a shower, I was overly warm. I had dressed myself in three layers (camisole, long sleeve black top and a drape-y/wrap-y sweater) and couldn't deal with putting any additional warmth' [...]
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    Fetched: February 13, 2009, 2:00pm EST

  • Longing for light

    Growing up in Portland, one of the things I prided myself on was the fact that I was never one of those people who was plagued by Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). I didn't mind the long, overcast days and the weeks without sun. I was tough, I was a Pacific' [...]
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    Fetched: February 09, 2009, 12:52pm EST

  • Fork You: Bee Mine

    Fork You: Bee mine from Fork You on Vimeo. The latest episode of Fork You is up. We filmed this one last summer during a visit to Anne and Tony's house out in Jenkintown. For the last few years, Anne has been keeping bees at home for the last couple of [...]
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    Fetched: February 03, 2009, 11:49pm EST

  • Blackberry jam has nothing to do with the contents of this post

    Back at the beginning of January, someone told me that they could feel that there were some significant changes on the horizon for me. I grabbed ahold of those words like they were a delicious treat and kept them close by, for those moments when my discontentedness threatened to overwhelm [...]
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    Fetched: February 01, 2009, 6:48pm EST

  • Fork You: Pickle of a Jam

    [viddler id-2c6c1742 h-370 w-437] Time for more Fork You (Scott's really churning them out these days - they'll be another up next week!). This one is a favorite of mine, because I'm a huge fan of homemade jam and pickles. There's something lovely about making these things yourself instead of simply [...]
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    Fetched: January 25, 2009, 9:55pm EST

  • A brief respite in the lemon groves

    I spent the last couple of days out in California, on my very first press trip. It was sponsored by Sunkist and was intended to offer up a whole mess of good information about the wonders of lemons (Which it did. I've been totally brainwashed to the virtues of lemons [...]
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    Fetched: January 14, 2009, 12:51am EST

  • Fork You Live - New and Newer!

    [viddler id-356b5187 h-370 w-437] The latest episode of Fork You Live is edited and ready for your hungry eyes! I was happy that we were able to sneak another installment in before the year turned over. The recipes aren't posted to the Fork You site yet, but I will get them [...]
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    Fetched: January 02, 2009, 1:50pm EST

  • Hopes for the New Year

    Most years, I do a sort internal battle with resolutions. On one hand, I'm a bit disdainful of the idea that there's one time of year that is better than any other on which to determine to change your life. But the other side of that coin appeals to me, [...]
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    Fetched: January 02, 2009, 1:49am EST

  • Back from Portland, where I had nearly no internet

    In the past, when I've gone home to Portland, I've had the opportunity to while away hour upon hour, gazing at the internet on my trusty laptop, thanks to my parents' abundant wireless connection. However, in November, my parents moved to a new house and set themselves up with an [...]
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    Fetched: December 31, 2008, 2:20pm EST

  • Engaged

    So Scott and I got engaged tonight. It wasn't a surprise for me, because I designed the ring and I've never been particularly good with surprises. We made it official in the courtyard at City Hall, in the glow of the Christmas lights. Despite the lack of proposal ambush, we [...]
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    Fetched: December 20, 2008, 12:24am EST

  • A long-ish update in payment for blog neglect

    Sunday afternoon, my cousin Melissa called from Los Angeles to check in. Within the first couple minutes of our conversation, she said, "You know, I used to feel so in touch with your life because of your blog. But you hardly update anymore." What she said is true, I'm not [...]
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    Fetched: December 16, 2008, 11:52am EST

  • Being sick and feeling guilty

    I had grand plans to head into December well-rested and ready to take on the balance of 2008 with energy and motivation. Instead, on Sunday evening, my head started to fill up with goo and I spent most of the week in a cold-induced fog. Thanksfully, my ability to breathe [...]
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    Fetched: December 05, 2008, 10:50am EST

  • Giving thanks in Apartment 2024

    Yesterday, I hosted Thanksgiving for the second time in my life. The first was several years ago, when all my Philly family decamped for the Columbia River Gorge. This year, needing to take Scott and his mom into the equation, we planned for a small dinner at our place on [...]
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    Fetched: November 28, 2008, 11:21pm EST

  • Refreshed chairs

    Last night, Thad and Angie came over to help Scott and me recover the chairs I bought in Chestertown, MD over Labor Day Weekend. We've been using them ever since I bought them, but they were hard and uncomfortable with no discernible padding and horribly ugly fabric. I finally bought [...]
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    Fetched: November 20, 2008, 12:27pm EST

  • Last night, Thad and Angie came over ...

    Last night, Thad and Angie came over to help Scott and me recover the chairs I bought in Chestertown, MD over Labor Day Weekend. We've been using them ever since I bought them, but they were hard and uncomfortable with no discernable padding and horribly ugly fabric. I finally bought [...]
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    Fetched: November 18, 2008, 12:50am EST

  • Close calls

    Yesterday I ran home during my lunch hour, to grab some food and start a batch of soup in a slow cooker. I was in a hurry to chop and saute the veggies before tossing them in the pot, and in the process I got a little careless. At the [...]
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    Fetched: November 14, 2008, 12:48am EST

  • Fork You: Our Daily Bread

    [viddler id-6d5cda6 h-370 w-437] I had grand intentions of participating in NaBloPoMo (in which you post a blog post every single day of November). However, as you may have noticed, starting last Thursday, I've been stumbling a little in pursuit of that goal. No matter, I'm getting back up on the [...]
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    Fetched: November 11, 2008, 11:21pm EST

  • A corner of my kitchen

    I have mixed emotions about many parts of my apartment. I feel fortunate to have such a safe, comfortable place to live, but there isn't a day that goes by when I don't find myself wishing for a little pocket of outdoor space. I also frequently sigh in resigned frustration [...]
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    Fetched: November 06, 2008, 12:15am EST

  • My third presidential election

    Today, I cast a ballot in a presidential election for the third time in my life. I was 21 in 2000 and so voted via absentee ballot from college for Al Gore. I remember the feeling of nausea when I had to eventually go to bed that election night without [...]
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    Fetched: November 05, 2008, 2:14am EST

  • My new Hoosier cabinet

    Growing up, I was something of an unusual kid. From an early age, I spent considerable time wandering thrift stores and antique malls with my mom, and so by the time I was nine years old, I could tell the difference between a pie safe and an old ice box. [...]
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    Fetched: November 05, 2008, 2:14am EST

  • My new Hoosier cabinet

    Growing up, I was something of an unusual kid. From an early age, I spent considerable time wandering thrift stores and antique malls with my mom, and so by the time I was nine years old, I could tell the difference between a pie safe and an old ice box. [...]
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    Fetched: November 03, 2008, 11:51pm EST

  • Now with extra jumpy

    Lately, I've been unusually jittery. I used to like TV shows with a little bit of suspense, but right now, the tiniest bit of uncertainly leaves me chewing my cuticles and leaping around on my square of couch cushion. I can't read anything that contains forms of fighting or conflict. [...]
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    Fetched: November 03, 2008, 12:14am EST

  • Pictures from the Phillies parade

    Yesterday felt like New Year's Day. Starting at 7 am, we could hear the thousands of people already out lining Market and Broad Streets, waiting for the noon-time parade to start. They were hooting and yelling, screaming with voices hoarse with multiple days of victory celebrations. When I left for [...]
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    Fetched: November 01, 2008, 8:23pm EDT

  • Fork You Live this Saturday + season three launch

    [viddler id-8ea8a776 h-370 w-437] As you can see from the video above, we've finally got some fresh Fork You goodness for your viewing pleasure. This is from a Fork You Live that we did at Foster's Homeware last spring, where we made a selection of dips and dippers (all easy and [...]
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    Fetched: October 31, 2008, 3:56pm EDT

  • On being something of a Phillies fan

    While I've never been much of a sports fan in any sense of the word, I've definitely been swept along lately in the energy that having the Phillies in the World Series. So much so, that I recently participated in a fan video for uwishunu (a blog run out of [...]
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    Fetched: October 29, 2008, 10:23pm EDT

  • Gathering windfall apples on Sauvie Island

    During my childhood, there was a stretch of several years when, during the fall, my mom, sister and I would drive out to Sauvie Island. We'd park in the grassy lot at the Bybee-Howell house and pick up windfall apples from the antique apple orchard there. We weren't allowed to [...]
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    Fetched: October 17, 2008, 1:23am EDT

  • Updates from my urban life

    My sister blew through town earlier in the week, bringing with her a handful of new songs, John Elliot, Mudge the accupuncturist and lots of chaos. She rolled in a minute or two after 4:30 pm on Sunday afternoon, pulling her 'new' Subaru station wagon into the parking garage just [...]
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    Fetched: October 09, 2008, 1:54pm EDT

  • Fork You Live and Raina Rose

    I'm probably far too late in posting this, but for those of you who are still reading this mostly-neglected website, I've got a couple events happening this weekend for your consideration. This Saturday at 2 pm, Fork You Live returns (after a two-month hiatus) to Foster's Homeware (399 Market Street). We'll [...]
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    Fetched: October 03, 2008, 2:30pm EDT

  • Immortalized in an in-flight magazine

    Some of you might remember that last summer, I worked on a little project that I called Stories from Reading Terminal. It was my attempt to gather tales from shoppers and vendors at Philly's storied public food market. I ran out of steam for the project as the demands of [...]
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    Fetched: September 24, 2008, 7:52pm EDT

  • Photos from Hoover Dam

    Last Friday, after Scott was done with VM World, we picked up a rental car and drove to Boulder City to visit Hoover Dam. It is an impressive work of human creativity and artistic design. As we toured it, Scott and I couldn't help comment more than once that had [...]
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    Fetched: September 24, 2008, 1:26am EDT

  • Chatting with Average Betty

    While I was out in LA last week, I had the pleasure of meeting up with a couple of food bloggers. I took a stroll around the Santa Monica Farmers Market on Wednesday morning with Sarah Gim, the girl genius behind The Delicious Life and Tastespotting (and formerly of Slashfood). [...]
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    Fetched: September 23, 2008, 12:22am EDT

  • Traveling and heading home

    For the last week, I've been away, out of my normal routine and spending as little time around the computer as was possible. I spent the first half of the week hanging out in Los Angeles and the second half in Las Vegas with Scott. Since last Saturday, I've been [...]
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    Fetched: September 21, 2008, 3:21am EDT

  • Saying goodbye to Bonnie the dog

    We got Bonnie the third day of my junior year of high school. I remember vividly, because my parents had gotten me my very first car the week before and I drove out to the Troutdale Humane Society to meet up with them and help pick out the new dog. [...]
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    Fetched: September 11, 2008, 12:47am EDT

  • Fabric shopping

    This morning, I picked up Angie a few minutes after ten to head down to Fabric Row, in the hopes of finding some great fabric with which to recover the seats of the new dining room chairs. We went to five different stores and looked at more bolts of fabric [...]
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    Fetched: September 07, 2008, 1:49am EDT

  • Camp Tockwogh and new chairs

    Last Friday, I packed up the car, picked up Shay and headed down to Still Pond, Maryland for a long weekend at Camp Tockwogh. It's the fifth year in a row that I've spend Labor Day Weekend down at camp and it was just as wonderful and relaxing as always [...]
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    Fetched: September 05, 2008, 1:23am EDT

  • Fork You: Scott cooks!

    [viddler id-28887517 h-370 w-437] Over the weekend, I took off for the Chesapeake Bay with a bunch of old friends, leaving Scott to his own devises back in the apartment. He entertained himself by catching up on several on-demand television shows, doing a bunch of work and making an episode of [...]
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    Fetched: September 02, 2008, 5:25pm EDT

  • Four generations on a single statue

    Saturday afternoon, I got a call from my mom's cousin Amy. She was at Rittenhouse Square with Derek and Sabrina and was wondering if I wanted to join them. I was sitting at the dining room table when the phone rang, eating a turkey sandwich and reading the weekend newspaper. [...]
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    Fetched: August 26, 2008, 12:19am EDT

  • Fight or flight

    Over the last few weeks I've been riding my bike more. I took it out last night to pick up a to-go order at Lee How Fook (by far, my favorite Chinese restaurant in the city). It was around 7 pm, and the sun was coming down at that slanty [...]
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    Fetched: August 25, 2008, 12:48am EDT

  • Spending, releasing and a very large coffeemaker

    Yesterday afternoon, I left work feeling sort of itchy and restless, like there was soda water running through my veins. I wanted run out and buy things, just for the experience of the acquisition. At the same time I also wished to get rid of everything. Wisely, I tucked my [...]
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    Fetched: August 21, 2008, 12:46am EDT

  • A Summer weekend

    I've been a busy girl of late. Summer is rapidly drawing to an end and I've been scurrying hither and yon, trying to wrap my hands around these waning days. Saturday morning, I got out of bed earlier than I do on my work days, in order to go out [...]
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    Fetched: August 18, 2008, 7:29pm EDT

  • True blog love, according to CBS 3

    [caption id="attachment_1036" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Scott and Marisa, interviewed on CBS3"][/caption] Last Thursday, I got an email from Nicole Brewer, the reporter for CBS3.com, asking if she could feature Scott and me in her column. Friday morning she came over to the apartment to film us and Monday morning, there was an [...]
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    Fetched: August 13, 2008, 6:32pm EDT

  • Enjoying life, mis-matched shoes and Neil Diamond

    Last night, sitting across from Scott at Vietnam Palace, I realized something about him. He hardly ever complains. I, on the other hand, am something of a champion complainer. As we talked about the differences in our personalities and the ways in which I almost seem to require something in [...]
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    Fetched: August 12, 2008, 2:30pm EDT

  • Written while being filmed

    Right at this very moment, Nicole Brewer from CBS3 is walking around Scott and me, taking B-roll of us sitting on the loveseat in the living room, typing away on our laptops. In order to keep typing, I've started this blog post so that it looks like I'm doing something. She [...]
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    Fetched: August 09, 2008, 1:59pm EDT

  • Thirty-eight years and counting

    Last Friday, my parents celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary. It's an impressive feat, especially given the fact that they had known each other just six weeks on the day they got married. My dad was 21 and my mom had just turned 23 six days before. After the wedding, they [...]
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    Fetched: August 04, 2008, 1:16am EDT

  • Who knew a washing machine could make me giddy?

    I just needed to take a moment and gush about the new washer/dryer. So far, it's amazing. I have to admit that I was a little concerned that the convenience of having more space in the kitchen would be offset by the fact that it was going to be a [...]
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    Fetched: July 31, 2008, 11:05pm EDT

  • Lesson learned: Always double check

    I learned an important lesson last night. Always check every hose, even if it's one that you know you didn't loosen. You see, I ran a load of laundry in the new machine last night and everything seemed to be fine and dandy, until I headed into the kitchen to [...]
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    Fetched: July 31, 2008, 12:04pm EDT

  • Our first new appliance

    When my grandfather first bought my apartment, way back in 1966, one of the modern features the kitchen sported was a compact all-in-one washer/dryer combo unit. It was turquoise, just like all the other kitchen appliances and slid neatly into a slot under the counter, across from the refrigerator. Unfortunately, [...]
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    Fetched: July 31, 2008, 1:18am EDT

  • Mo’s famous pancake mix

    When I was growing up, my mom was in charge of the regular, daily cooking. She set out boxes of cereal in the morning before school or quickly scrambled an egg or two, made miles of peanut butter and honey sandwiches and prepared baked chicken legs and hamburger scramble until [...]
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    Fetched: July 29, 2008, 11:46pm EDT

  • My neighborhood in history

    I lost about an hour this afternoon, looking through old pictures of Philadelphia on phillyhistory.org. They've scanned, tagged and archived many of the images of the city's past on that site and all the pictures are searchable by address or keyword, which makes for hours of fun. In the past, [...]
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    Fetched: July 22, 2008, 5:26pm EDT

  • Farmers market pics and other tidbits

    I spent some time last Sunday at the Headhouse Square farmers market with Shay. After we finished shopping, we stashed our veggies in the car for a little while so that I could wander around and take some pictures. Taking photos of the changing wave of seasonal produce is one [...]
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    Fetched: July 17, 2008, 11:34pm EDT

  • Cooking demos, visiting friends and farmers markets

    This has been a whirlwind weekend, and now it's just a few minutes before midnight on Sunday and I'm wishing for another day (however, I'd settle for another hour or two). My friend Cindy was in town, visiting from DC. Friday night, a collection of us drove to Wiggins Park [...]
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    Fetched: July 14, 2008, 1:03am EDT

  • Fork You: Chili today!

    [viddler id-6b0b31d6 h-370 w-437] So the middle of summer might not be the best time of the year to cook up a big old pot of chili, but I gotta tell you, this stuff is darn tasty no matter what month you find yourself in. I make some variation on this [...]
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    Fetched: July 07, 2008, 12:18am EDT

  • Two Fork You events coming up

    We've got two back-to-back Fork You events coming up in the next two weeks and then we're taking the rest of the summer off from live filming. The first is this Saturday, July 5th at 2 pm at Foster's Homewares (399 Market Street). There we'll be making blueberry jam, along [...]
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    Fetched: July 03, 2008, 7:47pm EDT

  • Cab rides

    Last Sunday morning, I tip-toed around the apartment, trying to not make too much noise as I packed up the last few things I'd need for the next three days in New York. Kissing a mostly-sleeping Scott good-bye, I headed out the door and towards the Bolt Bus. I was running [...]
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    Fetched: July 03, 2008, 4:50pm EDT

  • Let there be new light!

    For the last 42 years, the same light fixture has hung in the entryway of my apartment. An interior designer with seriously questionable judgment picked it out for my grandmother in 1966 (along with the avocado colored half table and a beaded curtain to divide the kitchen from the dining [...]
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    Fetched: June 26, 2008, 11:19pm EDT

  • Learning to stop looking down the road

    I realized this morning that one of the things that has been keeping me from writing here has been the feeling that I need to somehow bring the blog up to date. However, every day that I go without beginning that update means that there is just more to write. [...]
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    Fetched: June 20, 2008, 10:51am EDT

  • Girlfriend’s Guide to Gaming

    A couple of months ago, I got an email asking me if I was interested in becoming a "Brand Enthusiast" for the Nintendo DS Lite. While I've never been someone who goes out of her way to play video games, when the opportunity to play things like Tetris or ... [...]
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    Fetched: June 16, 2008, 8:10pm EDT

  • Being community minded or Happy Father’s Day

    My dad has always approached fatherhood with a lighthearted sincerity. He believed that as a parent, it was his obligation to help us to become the best citizens possible. He was constantly reminding my sister and me that we needed to look upon our family as a community and always [...]
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    Fetched: June 15, 2008, 11:42pm EDT

  • I got me a winner!

    To be fair, he was goofing around and I made him hold the pose so that I could grab my camera. It was pure comedy! [...]
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    Fetched: June 10, 2008, 1:58am EDT

  • Mother’s Day and Derek

    For the last six (going on seven) years, I have lived a country away from my mom. I always send her a card and call on Mother's Day, but I can't take make her brunch or invite her to wander a Farmers' Market with me. However, this Mother's Day, Scott [...]
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    Fetched: June 10, 2008, 1:58am EDT

  • Cleaning out a junk drawer

    Recently, I've been struck by a deep need to get rid of things. I've been going through drawers and boxes, trying to toss the useless ephemera and clutter that constantly plagues me. I've been trying to do it in small bites, so that I don't overwhelm myself and give up [...]
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    Fetched: June 06, 2008, 2:24pm EDT

  • Scott on television

    Earlier this afternoon, Scott forwarded me an email. He added one line to the sentence, which said, "OMG! I'm going to be on TV. But check out the dress code section!" They had specifically said that he wasn't allowed to wear a Hawaiian shirt. So, while I sat quietly in [...]
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    Fetched: June 05, 2008, 12:21am EDT

  • Dar Williams plays for free in New Jersey

    Wednesday night, despite the fact that I was feeling slightly tired and anti-social, I bought a sandwich, climbed into my car and headed across the Walt Whitman Bridge to Haddon Lake Park to meet some friends for the free Dar Williams concert. I always find the transition from Philly to New [...]
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    Fetched: May 31, 2008, 1:15am EDT

  • A short Lancaster vacation

    A couple of months ago, Scott and I decided we needed a vacation, even just a brief one. After a bit of searching, we decided to get out of town over Memorial Day weekend and I set about finding someplace to go. Because of gas prices, we didn't want to [...]
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    Fetched: May 30, 2008, 12:16am EDT

  • Mother?s Day and Derek

    For the last six (going on seven) years, I have lived a country away from my mom. I always send her a card and call on Mother's Day, but I can't take make her brunch or invite her to wander a Farmers' Market with me. However, this Mother's Day, Scott [...]
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    Fetched: May 30, 2008, 12:16am EDT

  • Fork You Live: Flippin? eggs

    [viddler id-8d56eedb h-370 w-437] Last month's egg-oriented Fork You Live is finally up and ready for your consumption!  I'm not quite done writing up the recipes, but I should have those up over on forkyou.tv by the end of the day.  This was a fun show to film and the episode [...]
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    Fetched: May 30, 2008, 12:16am EDT

  • Farmers? Markets and family gardens

    For a lot of years, I didn't really think of Farmers' Markets as a place where one actually did any food shopping.  I considered them a treat, a supplement to regular trips to the grocery store, where you bought highly priced peaches, an unnecessary loaf of bread and a single [...]
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    Fetched: May 30, 2008, 12:16am EDT

  • A mountain of toilet paper

    Scott and I have a deal that if I'm buying the toilet paper, I get to buy the variety of my choice and when he buys, he gets to choose. If I ask him to pick up a pack, I cannot dictate what he buys. I understand and respect this [...]
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    Fetched: May 23, 2008, 1:59pm EDT

  • Quick Fork: Scone on the range

    [viddler id-947d702 h-370 w-437] Check out the latest Quick Fork, in which we make scones in two minutes (well, to be honest, they took a little longer than that, but not much). This is my favorite scone recipe because it's really easy, doesn't use much butter and cooks up perfectly no [...]
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    Fetched: May 22, 2008, 12:21am EDT

  • Weddings, new tires and serendipity

    Scott and I spent the weekend in Lancaster County. We were out there for the wedding of our friends, Becky and Eric. As we drove out of Philly, I realized that I don't get out of the city nearly enough. While I wouldn't particularly want to live outside the energy [...]
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    Fetched: May 19, 2008, 12:23am EDT

  • Mother’s Day and Derek

    For the last six (going on seven) years, I have lived a country away from my mom. I always send her a card and call on Mother's Day, but I can't take make her brunch or invite her to wander a Farmers' Market with me. However, this Mother's Day, Scott [...]
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    Fetched: May 12, 2008, 11:57pm EDT

  • Raina Rose on YouTube

    Once in a while, when I have down moment and no other commitments, I enter my sister's name into the search box in Google. Most of the time the links I find aren't new to me, but occasionally I discover something new about Raina (it is slightly odd that ... [...]
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    Fetched: May 10, 2008, 11:33am EDT

  • Local strawberries

    No matter what the calendar actually says, when you can find local strawberries that look like that, summer is "officially" here. [...]
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    Fetched: May 09, 2008, 11:56pm EDT

  • Trying to stop being such a complainer

    I realized today that I have been complaining a lot.  A friend emails, asking how I'm doing and I start typing out a litany of grievances.  I walk into the apartment and immediately start bemoaning the state of clutter and disarray. People ask me how the new job is and [...]
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    Fetched: May 09, 2008, 6:32pm EDT

  • Fork You Live: Flippin’ eggs

    [viddler id-8d56eedb h-370 w-437] Last month's egg-oriented Fork You Live is finally up and ready for your consumption!  I'm not quite done writing up the recipes, but I should have those up over on forkyou.tv by the end of the day.  This was a fun show to film and the episode [...]
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    Fetched: May 07, 2008, 2:01pm EDT

  • Farmers’ Markets and family gardens

    For a lot of years, I didn't really think of Farmers' Markets as a place where one actually did any food shopping.  I considered them a treat, a supplement to regular trips to the grocery store, where you bought highly priced peaches, an unnecessary loaf of bread and a single [...]
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    Fetched: May 06, 2008, 10:59am EDT
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