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"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention"  ~ Oscar Wilde…

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Mid Week Inspiration No. 3: Easy Weeknight Cooking…

"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love"     ~ Hubert H. Humphrey…

Stop what you’re doing. Dinner tonight is the very best kind there is…

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In the summertime, there aren't many things I like more than…

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It's not"   ~ The Lorax…

“Health, contentment and trust are your greatest possessions, and freedom your greatest joy!” ~ Buddha…

Do you have a favorite cookbook?…

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"You should try to relax about having people over. I have friends who are nervous hostesses, and it just contaminates the entire mood of the evening. They are always rushing from the room to…

“And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling ..…

"There’s no subtext with the wedge (none of that “I’m healthy!”)  Its only goal is to please"  ~ Bon Appetit…

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“There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism or better living through exercise. It's because of ..…

Nearly everything you need to know about my childhood can be summed up…

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"What if, today, we were grateful for everything?" ~ Charlie Brown…

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It's inevitable. You're at a weekend birthday party ..…

"And as the years go by, our friendship will never die. You're gonna see it's our destiny. You've got a friend in me"…

Spring is nature's way of saying 'Let's Party!' ~ Robin Williams…

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough” ~ Oprah Winfrey…

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank-you .. it will be enough" ~ Meister Eckhart…

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“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first” ~ Ernestine Ulmer…

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work and realizing…

"Hey, how about... oh, how about some coffee or, you know, drinks or dinner or a movie... for as long as we both shall live?" — You've Got Mail | Nora Ephron…

Ar·ca·dia \är-ˈkā-dē-ə\ 1. Region of Greece: in mythology the domain of the god Pan 2. Pastoral Paradise; an ideal of life in harmony with nature…

Ryan: "Wanna start a coffee shop" Liz: "Only if I get to bake things there" Ryan: "Of course" Liz: "Sure" ~ Arcadia.com…

From afternoon coffee runs in our slippers .. to giant lap dogs .. to couch cocoa and peanut butter from the spoon. A few things that have been happening in our world lately…

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"Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it" ~ Andy Rooney…

"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs" ~ Pearl Strachan Hurd…

"How 'ya 'doing Grandma?"…

“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take…

"Whether you think you can, or you can't .. you're right" ~ Henry Ford…

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does” ~ William James…

"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating" ~ Luciano Pavarotti…

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From parsnip hash browns for breakfast, to candied pecans for breakfast dessert, to hot yoga on cold winter's nights; a few things that have been happening on my Live Healthy Iowa Challenge journey lately…

“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love” ~ A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh…

“Earlier, watching her apply mascara with ritual concentration, he’d wondered just how beautiful a woman had to be before she believed it.” ~ Alison Fell…

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“What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick!…

“I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.” ~ Nora Ephron…

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From coconut oil popcorn to old puzzles with missing pieces, to evenings with friends drinking mulled wine from solo cups.  A few things that have been happening in our world, lately…

"And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, This is important! And this is important! And this is important!…

"The toe bone's connected to the foot bone. The foot bone's connected to the ankle bone…

"Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more!" ~ Dr Seuss | How the Grinch Stole Christmas…

"I never thought it was a bad little tree .. Maybe all it needs is a little love" ~ Linus…

Trivia! How many cookies does Santa eat on Christmas Eve?…

“If God had intended us to follow recipes, he wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.” ~ Linda Henley…

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“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him. The people who give you their food give you their heart” ~ Cesar…

Chunks of dark chocolate, lots of nut butter…

"We're a nation of largely exhausted cooks today" ~ The New York Times…

"What if, today, we were grateful for everything?" ~ Charlie Brown…

"And so, Thanksgiving. It's the most amazing holiday" ~ Nora Ephron…

"Have I told you lately that I love you?" ~ Van Morrison…

From piles of leaves to birthday cake testing to Thanksgiving recipes dotting the kitchen counter .. a few things that have been happening in our world .. lately…

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Once upon a time, there was a little girl names Goldilocks. She went for a walk in the forest. Pretty soon she came upon a house. …

"I want to thank-you. Thank-you for being a friend" ~ Andrew Gold…

"If you never did, you should. These things are fun, and fun is good" ~ Dr. Seuss…

"Think left and think right, and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if you only try!" ~ Dr. Seuss…

"It's not about what it is. It's about what it can become" ~ Dr. Seuss, The Lorax…

"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn" ~ Elizabeth Lawrence…

We barked and waved as the last of our guests headed off, leftovers in hand, into the star-filled October night…

"It's hard to be angry or upset, and be grateful at the same time. If I'm ever of emotional or upset about something I think 'What am I grateful for?' I just…

"When an old person dies it's like a library burning" ~ Overheard at The Nantucket Project…

"Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" ~ William Shakespeare | Macbeth…

"I'm so glad we live in a world where there Octobers" ~ Anne of Green Gables…

"What could be more important than a little something to eat?" ~ Winnie the Pooh…

"If we're not meant to have midnight snacks, why is there a light in the fridge?" ~ Unknown…

I'm not going to tell you ..…

Sometimes, when you're a food blogger who's learned enough to know what you don't know…

"I have a core belief. Life is always happening for us, not to us, and it's our job to find out where the benefit is. If we do, life is magnificent" …

When it's a beautiful summer's night; when the weary travelers have returned home from a month away…

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree” ~ Martin Luther…

"After all, tomorrow is another day" ~ Scarlett O'Hara | Gone with the Wind…

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"There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired" ~ Friedrich Nietzche…

She wasn't getting back to me. She always gets back to me …

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"These are the days of the endless summer. These are the days, the time is now…

"This book is for the servantless American cook who can be unconcerned on occasion with budgets, waistlines, time schedules, children's meals, the parent-chaffer-den-mother syndrome, or anything else which might interfere with the enjoyment of…

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I met my husband in our town's version of a soup kitchen four years ago this month…

"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me, those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language"…

"The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get" ~ Tim Russert…

“Ask any woman how she makes it through the day, and she may mention her calendar, her to-do lists, her babysitter. But if you push her on how she really makes it through…

A simple thought for the day…

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