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Cairns Manor: Yes, it's time for another soup!
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Yes, it's time for another soup! Biggest pot I own, normally I use it for canning. I enjoy making a good soup. Besides being delicious and what not, they are super for lunch at work the next day. Especially if you heat it up, have to run in and take care of a patient or two or three and then you come back, realize your soup is cold again, reheat it, and it amazingly still tastes great. Not that I've ever. Had that happen to me at work. Not once. Anyway, back to the soup. 1 tabl...
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Cairns Manor: I need a vacation from my staycation.
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011. I need a vacation from my staycation. Child labor FTW, again! Shredding radish for the slaw. You know how it is, right? You go on vacation. You rest, relax, sight see, what not and end up still being tired at the end of it all once you get back home. I feel that way today, trouble is, I didn't go anywhere last week! Then you taste it and are blown away. Caramel Pork with Daikon Radish Slaw. 3/4 cup uncooked sushi or short-grain rice. 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, divided. 1 tablespoo...
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Cairns Manor: January 2011
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Saturday, January 29, 2011. We ate what was described as "grass clippings.". While at Costco today to pick up various needed things, I decided meat was in order for dinner. I picked up some New York steaks (my personal favorite) and realized I could try and hack one of my favorite steak house sides, creamed spinach. Friday, January 28, 2011. Purchases made, I headed home. I de-worked myself, got my comfy pants and slippers on, and got to it. Oven preheated and potatoes go in. Tuesday, January 25, 2011.
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Cairns Manor: A pixie and her hummus.
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Monday, March 14, 2011. A pixie and her hummus. Child labor to clean lemons! She's one of my little nieces. Eva, her mom and dad (my sister and brother in law) arrived from Oregon for a visit on Saturday. She just got a haircut yesterday, she wanted to have a pixie cut to skip that pesky hair brushing step in the morning. Eva was super excited to be cooking with Auntie yesterday, we started with a dig-that-earth-day-hummus. So we roasted the beets and then dropped everything in the food processor. Eva lo...
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Cairns Manor: Greek for dinner
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Thursday, March 10, 2011. I swear I've been cooking, I just haven't been here blogging, more is the pity. Between work and life over all, I just haven't stopped to write about any of the cooking I've been doing. Good news is the recipes have been really good and completely worth repeating. The biggest change I made was not to skewer the chicken, just for ease of getting dinner done. But if I were to grill this outside, I'd likely use skewers just to keep the meat from falling through the grill. 5 garlic ...
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Cairns Manor: June 2010
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Monday, June 28, 2010. 4 flavors of candy and a wedding. My sister joined the ranks of the happily wedded yesterday, many blessings for her new family! And of course, with weddings comes all the planning and preparations, from the venue to the dress to the seating chart and favors. I know she is very happy to say it is all done and went off without a hitch. I am a little tired today, okay, really I am exhausted, but I wanted to show off what fews pictures I have of our candy making last week. Poor little...
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Cairns Manor: Oh gin, how you suit citrus so well.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011. Oh gin, how you suit citrus so well. And there it was, a display of really reduced produce. Including several large bags of blood oranges.for only 99 cents each. I couldn't believe it. They didn't appear to be rotting, so I grabbed four big bags. 1 cup blood orange juice. Club soda or sparkling water. This one is actually the virgin version, I added gin to the next one! June 14, 2011 at 12:09 PM. I love blood oranges! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Love and Olive Oil. Nurse...
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Cairns Manor: February 2011
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Sunday, February 27, 2011. Ive got a lot of thing to talk about, Ill jump back to Tuesday though. I took the day to get some housework done and some cooking done before working the next two days. I whipped up another batch of broccoli soup to take for lunches and froze half of it for some dinner in the likely near future. Arugula, also known as Rocket! Tuesday, February 22, 2011. A public service announcement. How ever, I agree with her on one thing and one thing alone: Shirataki. Noodles are a good thing.
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Cairns Manor: I've got another confession to make.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011. I've got another confession to make. Or two, or three. Actually, I'm not sure how much I'll be baring my soul today, but let's get started, shall we? First, I'd like to acknowledge I have a thing for tablecloths:. I got these three at Target just last week. My husband rolled his eyes at me. He just doesn't understand. It's like buying a pretty dress for the dining room. The poor thing had some older, stained ones. It's Spring! Time for new dresses for the dining room! Brussel spr...
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Cairns Manor: September 2010
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010. The secret is the sauce in the sauce. I love bourbon, its good stuff. I think I have my father to blame for the constant presence of bourbon in our home. Also, the lack of bourbon as he tends to drink my bourbon when my parents are over for dinner. Monday, September 27, 2010. Heat wave, coming through. I have the fans going, curtains drawn, blinds closed and the temp inside the house is holding at about 83 degrees, which is likely about 15 degrees cooler than it is outside&...