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Past Blast: Washing Machine Shopping – a field report

From November, 2007: One of my faithful servants, the washing machine, breathed its last several days ago. I assumed my handy mate would pick up the odd part, rattle around in its bowels, and keep it going for another few years, but it turns out that, as with one’s car, a ruined transmission is an […]

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Lori’s Almost-Famous Peanut Butter Pie

Need a crowd-pleasing dessert you can make ahead, refrigerate, and forget about until serving time? I like this peanut butter pie better than any I have ever had, hands-down. Everybody loves it, and it is great any season of the year. It is rich, so think of serving thin slices and having it after a […]

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Past Blast: Alley Cat

From 2008: I love walking through alleys. Well, I must clarify: I love walking through the kinds of alleys that crisscross my town and all of the little towns in my orbit. I am sure there are big-city alleys I would be terrified to traverse, but here in Mayberry, alleys are where it’s at. One […]

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Two Announcements: Giveaway Winner and a New Series

April Starr at The Flourishing Abode is the randomly chosen winner of a copy of Anne Bogel’s new book, Work Shift. Congratulations, April! You can get your gift by contacting Anne here. For me, writing happens very much in the moment. When I write about my earlier years, memory alters reality too often, and what […]

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Book Review and GIVEAWAY: Work Shift, by Anne Bogel

  Surely one of the greatest challenges for Christians is to step outside their culture (even the culture within the community of brethren) to accurately determine God’s best plan for their families, and once they have understood it as well as they can, to live it in the middle of the culture in which they […]

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Pucker Up, Buttercup: Lemon and Berry Pie or Parfaits

Summer means thinking of ways to have your dessert and not heat the kitchen, too, and variations on lemon icebox pie are at the top of my bag of tricks for ways to satisfy my sweet tooth with a minimum of fuss and heat. At the girls’ camp we talked about earlier, we wanted to […]

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Sprucing Up the Porch for Autumn

Summer is winding down, as I have already mentioned. The big blue pots on either side of the front door have been planted up with red geraniums, a vine-y thing, and a looks-like-petunias-but-its-really-something-else-I-can’t-remember-cascade-y thing. They have been pretty accents on the porch, but they have suffered from forgetful watering several times and the stress of […]

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Cerebral Homemaking Part 7 — Mundane or Maniacal?

Other Cerebral Homemaking posts: Part 1: Wrapping My Mind Around My Work  Part 2: Please Lie Down on the Couch and We’ll Begin the Analysis Part 3: Lofty Thinking — About Vision, Philosophy, and the G-Word Part 4: Blast Physics! We Have to Aim Just a  Little Higher Part 5: Time Matters Part 6: We […]

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Savor Summer: 5 Ways, 5 Senses, 5 Minutes

Nectarines — one of those fruits that are only good in season (photo credit: Tori Luther) Summer is almost over, but more about that tomorrow. Right now, before it ends, here is what I wish everyone in the northern hemisphere would do: Taste — Get your hands on a tomato. Any version grown in somebody’s […]

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Evolution of a Go-To Recipe: Main Dish Salad with Grilled Chicken, Fruit, and Poppy Seed Dressing

 Most cooks who have been in the kitchen for any length of time have at least a handful of standby recipes, dishes they make again and again because they are extra-delicious, easy, or versatile. Go-to recipes are the culinary equivalent of a habit, which is not a bad thing at all if they are well […]

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