Monthly Archives: January 2009

Mini-chocolate cakes

January 30, 2009
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Mini-chocolate cakes

Chocolate Mini Bundt Cakes  (This recipe came from alpineberry.blogspot.com) This recipe is actually pretty easy and tastes divine! Cake: 1 cup all purpose flour 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 4 ounces (1 stick/8 tbsp) unsalted butter, softened at room temp 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 large egg 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract 1/2 cup whole milk 7 ounces good quality* milk chocolate, melted and cooled Glaze: 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped 2 tsp light corn syrup To make the cake: Preheat oven to 350F. Generously butter a 6-mold mini bundt pan. Sift together the flour, baking...

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Cloth Diapers

January 30, 2009
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In an earlier post, I admitted that I wasn’t doing cloth diapers for the double yuck factor.  Well,  we are now using cloth and it really isn’t that bad.  We use prefold diapers with diaper covers and it is actually super easy.    One of our most recent additions is a diaper sprayer which is attached to the toilet.  You can use this to spray off the poop from the diaper rather than the traditional dunk and swirl.  My husband loves using the sprayer so this is a double blessing for me  Since we still have lots of disposables,...

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Making Tuna Tolerable

January 30, 2009
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Tuna is one of those necessary evils.  I have lots of it.  I know it is good for me and yet, I dread eating it.  Today I combined several different ideas and wahla!  tolerable tuna. My new combination:   Mayonnaise/ ranch dressing  (2-3TB) Relish (2TB) Mustard (just a dab) 1/4 Sweet Onion – diced Cilantro – chopped, about 1/4 cup 1/4 apple – diced small It tastes even better if you let it sit for about 2 hours before eating.  Enjoy

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Jabbering Abby

January 24, 2009
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Our daughter Abby seems to change more and more everyday.  Here is a video of  Abby starting to “talk.”  I guess she really had a lot to say!  Her facial expressions are the funniest thing!  I think she was listening to everyone talk around here and decided that she needed to also join in. Enjoy!

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Rex

January 15, 2009
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Rex

Rex by Catherine Lewis Rating:   Rex is an honest portrayal of a mother’s journey to accept, love and enjoy her son’s diagnosis of blindness and autism.  Catherine Lewis, author and mother, draws in the reader as she describes her life living with Rex, her son who is blind, autistic and yet a musical savant.             Rex was born blind to a surprised mom and dad.  As he developed, doctor’s found a cyst on his brain that led to further complications.  Rex was also found to have autism.  Catherine graciously and humbly recounts these first years as she longs...

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