March 2, 2010
For Christmas my Mom got me a kit to make homemade vanilla extract. It included vanilla beans, a bottle, and instructions. It is amazingly simple: you score the beans with a knife, pop them in the bottle, fill the bottle with alcohol, and wait. You can use brandy to make a richer tasting extract, or [...]
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January 24, 2010
When I was pregnant, the only thing I craved was tacos. And it wasn’t just tacos, it had to be Taco Bell. The mysterious meat, the plasticy cheese…yep that is what I wanted. And there are a shortage of Taco Bells in our immediate vicinity, so it wasn’t unheard of for us to drive 25 [...]
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