Tag Archives: COVID living

June 25, 2020 ~ Pat. Pat. Pat. Patting ourselves on the back. We successfully accomplished fifteen days of different dinners! If I were to classify my enjoyment level of cooking prior to the challenge I’d put it at neutral. These past two weeks I have intentionally created meals more than I have over our forty […]

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June 22, 2020 ~ To some people the best night of the week is leftovers. To other people, not so much. Our son, Sean, was not a fan of ‘old’ food growing up. He preferred fresh meals. I can’t remember what he would have instead of leftovers. I did not understand his dislike of this […]

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June 19, 2020 ~ We love breakfast for dinner. Almost any hot breakfast food works for us for dinner. The exception is grits. We are raised in the northeast. Our families never introduced us to grits. We never became accustomed to them. When we moved to North Carolina in the early 2000’s I was working […]

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June 18, 2020 ~ There is good reason Sophie is a kitchen dog. She’s super amazing at catching food tossed to her. Not all dogs are. She excels at it. Her effort encourages me to do it whenever possible which encourages her to continue being a kitchen dog. We are both winning. Sophie goes for […]

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June 17, 2020 ~ In my family growing up shrimp was a luxury so we never had it, not even once. We had other kinds of fish like flounder or fish sticks but never shrimp. I might have had popcorn shrimp at a fast-food restaurant in my teens but it doesn’t do shrimp the justice […]

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