Yesterday’s recipe was Homemade Egg Rolls. What goes better with egg rolls than Sweet and Sour Sauce? One thing I have discovered about having a food blog….it forces me to measure ingredients AND write them down. You see, I’m not usually good about that. I like to “eyeball” measurements, and while that works fine…
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Continue ReadingGrowing up we didn’t eat a lot of “international” type foods. We did frequent the local Mexican restaurant, but it was a real treat if we went to have Chinese food. I always enjoyed the egg rolls, but since this was before the days of “fast food” Chinese, I didn’t get them very often.…
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Continue ReadingThis is the fourth and final post about celebrating a birthday…my husband’s. As I mentioned in previous posts, we have special Birthday Traditions, most of which involve food. This year even the gifts my husband received were food related. Here’s how…. It was about a week or so before his birthday and my children and…
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Continue ReadingThis week I’ve been talking about how we celebrate birthdays. So far I talked about where we went out to eat and the birthday cake. Now it’s time for the Birthday Meal at home. Since most of our Birthday Traditions involve food, we can’t do ALL of them on the same day. We went out for…
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Continue ReadingAs my husband was preparing to leave for work Friday morning, which was his birthday, and we were all saying good-bye, someone asked, “Hey, what kind of birthday cake are you having?” A perfectly reasonable question to ask a person on their birthday, unless their wife forgot about the cake! We were going out…