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Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies with Real Fruit Chews

This could be the end to my blogging for a while She’s a pistol! When this 9 week old puppy gets bursts of energy, look out! I’ve been lucky since it’s a long weekend and every time she starts feeling her oats, I let her and Shane out side to run it off. Unfortunately for the newly planted flowers, she finds things to amuse herself. Shane tolerates her outside and will play with her inside the house. He’ll put her whole head in his mouth when they play. He’s very careful not to step on her or put his entire [...]

By Joanne|2012-05-28T19:44:28-04:00May 28, 2012|cookies|6 Comments

Scars

As I was drying off from my bath this morning, I noticed the scar on my knee. Don’t most people have a scar on their knee? It’s a right of passage when we’re young. At some point, we must get a scar on our knee. An elbow is another good place to find a scar. This is my scar: I keep thinking it’s blue/grey because of the road gravel that has been in there all these years. Here’s the story: We were living in England (Teeton Northampton) where the hounds would be exercised for the hunt early in the morning. [...]

By Joanne|2012-03-30T16:44:48-04:00March 30, 2012|Life|4 Comments

Winter Running or Not + No Fuss Fish

Who can run with all this gear on? Face mask to inhibit the breath. Visor to stop the snow from hitting the face (one must tilt head for full benefit and possibly suffer neck strain). A wool hat. A ski jacket. Mittens that STILL allow for frozen thumbs. Snow pants, causing the running gait to adjust in such a way that it may appear an “accident” has occurred (runners are known for this). Sneakers that kind of protect against the wet but allow slippage on snow covered, ice concealed roads. The only good thing about all that get up is [...]

By Joanne|2010-12-09T14:31:55-05:00December 10, 2010|healthy cooking|9 Comments

And the Winner Is…Kansas Day 3

The final day of the California Raisin Bread Competition. What an exciting day. I won’t tell you about being awake at 3:30 am. Nor will I tell you how I forgot my socks and one of the judges told me I had better get my socks and that Ted had to save the day pertaining to both socks and pans. Yes, pans. Ted had to get to Wal-Mart and purchase four 9X13 cake pans. The AIB didn’t have the 11 X 15 I needed (with 2” sides) and neither did Wal-Mart. I made the best out of what we could get. [...]

By Joanne|2010-10-17T20:07:29-04:00October 17, 2010|Life, Quick Meals|18 Comments

The Bread Bakers Assemble: Kansas Day 1

On the plane(s): We went UP from Syracuse and DOWN to LaGuardia. UP from LaGuardia and DOWN to Dallas/Ft.Worth. UP from Dallas/Ft. Worth and DOWN to Kansas. All that up and down had my head spinning since I’m fighting a cold bug. We ate a quick lunch at D/Ft.: TOFUSION at UFood Grill. I like the theme, although due to extreme hunger, pretty much anything would have worked for me at that point. Being so famished from only an apple, banana and yogurt since the early am, the tofu, veggies and rice went down in a flash. We arrived in [...]

By Joanne|2010-10-14T23:10:35-04:00October 14, 2010|Quick Meals|11 Comments