fragrance

What is your mom moment?

May 9, 2009

Pepper Nuts Last year I was riffling through my cupboards looking for my mom’s pepper nut cookie recipe. You know the ones … you make a month before the holidays and glaze (no one could glaze like my mom) so they look like translucent snow on a very cold moonlit night. Hmmm. Not here. Not [...]

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New products we did not like.

May 5, 2009

This is the 5th post in a series about couponing.  Coupons? Yes Coupons? No Coupons? Sometimes New products we liked. New products we did not like. The following food products I bought because I had a coupon and they were on sale. I will not buy these products again. These are all quick foods that [...]

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Coupons? No

April 27, 2009

A few days ago I wrote Coupons? Yes… all about the benefits of couponing for my family. Today Coupons? No is all about the benefits of not couponing. For 2009 I changed my shopping habits to test the value of couponing for my family. The following information is based on 4 months of actual information and a budget [...]

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Citrus, floral, pepper or chocolate?

April 7, 2009

The sleet is tap, tap, tapping at the windows. In northeast Ohio a spring snowstorm carries lots of moisture – all from an unfrozen Lake Erie. Rain, sleet, snow … and what’s with the nonstop blasting horizontal wind? And the earthworms all over the driveway – where did they go or are they curled up [...]

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Chicken with artichokes and red peppers

April 3, 2009

My sister Kate gave me this recipe and I passed it around – a lot. On any given day one of my friends or someone in my family is probably cooking this meal. Why? It is delicious, fragrant, easy and affordable. We just call it chicken with artichokes and red peppers. Three hours before dinner [...]

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