coffee, coffee, all things coffee

I use the word “coffee” for a general meeting at a place where they serve coffee. I have never actually ordered just coffee… the closest I sometimes get is a coffee based beverage, like a latte. Sometimes it’s not even a coffee based beverage (hot chocolate, chai tea, etc…) I think it’s just the idea [...]

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la de da da

i just love plain yogurt, slightly sweetened (so it’s still very tart) with a hint of real vanilla extract.  yuuum. pure vanilla extract is a really big thing for me. ;) add some fresh raspberries or strawberries?  sublime!

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melting

Can someone please explain to me how I live in the north, in the dead of winter, with my heat off and my apartment is registering 75 degrees F?!?! When just two days ago, we had over six inches of snow on the ground?!?!?!?!?! And it was 20 degrees F? Where’s the snow?!  What on [...]

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pleasantly surprised

I just made an amazing lasagna! I’m snowed-in tonight – and we’re still getting snow - and today was my first shopping trip in three weeks, or it was supposed to be, so I had to get a little creative in the cooking department considering my fridge and pantry are low.  I put a little bit [...]

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hot chocolate

i make the best cocoa.  yum.  perfect for a freezing cold night.  (can’t take the credit – I’m sure Mama or Hershey’s had something to do with the recipe…and it’s not absolute – feel free to mess around with the proportions. =) Mix 1 T. pure dutch-processed cocoa powder and 1 T. white sugar in [...]

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into the woods

I currently live in suburbia right outside a huge metro city but I work about an hour north and one of my coworkers lives an hour further northwest on a farm; today, she told me she raises chickens, which makes me supremely nostalgic, remembering the time my family raised chickens. Why did we? Because beyond [...]

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moonstruck

I discovered a new café this weekend, heralded as a chocolate café. I was hanging out with my girlfriend and her nineteen month old son so we didn’t stop in, but I’m ecstatically excited at the thought of a chocolate café and eagerly look forward to trying it out in the near future. A café [...]

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togetherness

Priorities change as the years go by; one of my younger sisters is working Thanksgiving to make extra money…a few years ago, I might have done the same; now I wouldn’t work the holiday if you paid me exorbitant amounts. Perhaps I feel that way because I rarely get to see family and just spend [...]

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solitude

there’s nothing quite like coming home to a quiet house after a long workday and enjoying that hour inbetween the workday and the worknight by heating up some fabulous leftovers, kicking off your shoes and changing into bum-around clothes and lighting a candle. my friend dan treated me to dinner at a restaurant that served [...]

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richly blessed

I think I just received one of the sweetest compliments ever, probably because I was associated with pumpkins, coffee, and fire. ;) My dearly-beloved-New-York-City-transplanted girlfriend just popped up on my screen at work and said: why is it that whenever i talk to you i have this desire to put on my sweats, make coffee, [...]

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substitution

I was on the phone with a friend tonight, multitasking as normal, searching through my fridge to see what to have for supper when I came across organic veggies from last week’s grocery trip…I realized that I had nothing to dip them into, and generally I eat my veggies plain but today felt like a [...]

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