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  • (In Your Own) Home for the Holidays

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    I still remember the first major holiday when I didn’t go “home.” Back then, home still felt like where I had come from rather than where I rested my head every night. My husband was deployed, I was working, and there was not enough time to travel “home.” My brother, who lived about 4 hours…

  • Easter Recap 2020 and Menu Plan 4/19-5/2

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    Happy Easter! I hope you all had a peaceful holiday – it was definitely a different feeling this year with a stay-at-home order in effect, and while we all missed getting out to church in the morning, we still enjoyed lots of family time and plentiful food. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I…

  • Menu Plan 4/5-4/18 and some Covid-19 updates

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    Anyone else feel like 2020 is just kicking you when you’re down? I thought so. We started our social distancing about a week or two before guidelines started to come out here in Hawaii because we had a stomach bug (somehow our second stomach bug of the year), so we have been away from other…

  • Thanksgiving Menu 2019

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    Planning for this Thanksgiving has been the polar opposite from my planning last Thanksgiving. Last year, I knew months out that I wanted to buy a pre-made meal from a grocery store. I researched my options, looked for other people’s experiences, and stalked stores online as I waited for the special holiday fare to appear.…

  • Easter Recap

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    Happy Easter! My holiday was filled with good food and good company; I hope that yours was too! A few days ago, I shared my Easter menu plan. I want to revisit that post to recap what I actually made, the cooking timeline, and which recipes I will make again. This is the list of…

  • An Easter Menu Plan

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    So let’s talk Easter. If you recall, I have been trying to decide between a more traditional Easter dinner à la Easter Dinner on Two Sheet Pans, or go the small plates route like we did for Christmas. And after a lot of hemming and hawing, we decided to go non-traditional again. I know that classics…

  • Recipe: Slow Cooker Unstuffed Cabbage Soup

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    Unstuffed Cabbage Soup has been my family’s St. Patrick’s Day dinner for as long as I can remember. I could not tell you whether or not it is actually traditional Irish fare, although my Irish-American mother has always insisted that it is “more Irish” than corned beef and cabbage. I do know that cabbage is…

  • Alternative Holiday Dinners (Part 2)

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    This is the second of a two post series on alternative holiday dinners, where I share two ways to celebrate without cooking a big, traditional dinner. For Part 1, click here. When it was time to plan for Christmas, I considered ordering catering from Earth Fare again. But when I checked their menu, it was…

  • Alternative Holiday Dinners (Part 1)

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    This is the first of a two post series on alternative holiday dinners, where I share two ways to celebrate without cooking a big, traditional dinner. For Part 2, click here. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours! Looking back on this holiday season, it is hard to believe that it was…