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Archive for December, 2009

Thu
31
Dec '09

2009 memories in photos

We cooked a lot – and are starting to become quite competent in tex-mex and mexican recipes: Our mailbox was destroyed. Again. We thoroughly enjoyed Pi Rho festival (the rocket festival we go to with our friend Sally): Having baseball to softball sized hail hit my car with me in it is not something I [...]

Thu
31
Dec '09

Family Fun

My parents are visiting us for a few days, from Connecticut. We’ve had fun going shopping, watching Nebraska win their bowl game, and eating BBQ & Tex-Mex together. Here’s mom, making corn tortillas, from scratch. This was the first time she had ever made them. We ate them with homemade posole and green-chile-chicken-breasts on Tuesday [...]

Wed
16
Dec '09

Desserts!

I took the day off and did a little baking & cleaning yesterday. The baking was far more successful and rewarding than the cleaning! This picture shows some of the chocolate cookies I made. My favorites are probably the one on top: dark chocolate candy cane cookies. The recipe comes from the Wisconsin Dairy Board [...]

Sat
5
Dec '09

Our favorite restaurants

Last night, Matt and I tried to come up with a list of our favorite 10 restaurants in the world (alas, we couldn’t think of any outside the US worth putting on the list). Here’s roughly what we came up with: (order is approximate) Frontera Grill – Chicago Alan Wong’s – Honolulu Chuy’s – Austin [...]