Yearly Archives: 2012

Past Blast: The Happy Camper Returns

By Lori | Published: October 8, 2012

October 7, 2000: When last we spoke, I was still an interested but apprehensive virgin camper. We got back from our 2 week vacation tonight (the first seven days we camped) and I am here to report my experiences. We planned to spend two nights in a state park just north of Columbus, OH and then […]

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Lori’s Almost-Famous Peanut Butter Pie

By Lori | Published: October 5, 2012

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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Cerebral Homemaking Part 8 – Not a Kid Anymore

By Lori | Published: October 3, 2012

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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Past Blast: Alley Cat

By Lori | Published: October 1, 2012

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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Breakfast Burritos for a Crowd (or for one!)

By Lori | Published: September 28, 2012

Breakfast Burritos are one of my favorite ways to feed a crowd, a family, or just one or two because everybody who’s anybody loves them. I have made them more than once over the years with the kids in my summer cooking classes, usually paired with fruit smoothies or a fruit salad and they are […]

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Past Blast: Channeling Olivia Walton, and Other Ways My Life Operates

By Lori | Published: September 24, 2012

We begin a new series today called Past Blast, in which I plan to share some of my writing from before In My Kitchen, In My Life existed. From 2008: It occurs to me sometimes that I have probably never had an original thought. What I think and what I do is a direct result […]

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My Clothing: Editing, Organizing, Decluttering

By Lori | Published: September 21, 2012

Editing, organizing, and decluttering clothing is one of the responsibilities that comes with the blessing of abundance. I doubt my great-grandmothers had to give much time to this chore, but I have found the dressing and laundry parts of my days go much more smoothly if I spend about an hour every few months going […]

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Think Like a Chef

By Lori | Published: September 19, 2012

One of the big moments in my evolution as a cook was when I gradually began to think like a chef instead of a recipe collector. I am not talking about taking up molecular gastronomy or wearing a toque and clogs in the kitchen or hiring illegal immigrants to wash dishes and prep produce. I […]

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Two Announcements: Giveaway Winner and a New Series

By Lori | Published: September 17, 2012

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

By Lori | Published: September 13, 2012

  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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