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Storytime Theme: Cooking
Cooking is one of my most favorite pastimes. If you’re familiar with the “love languages” feeding people is definitely my love language. I love to make delicious food for friends, my staff at the library, and of course my family. So, it’s not a stretch that I wanted to create…
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9 Children’s Books All About South Asian Cuisine
I love a few things in this world and two of my big loves are books and food! We celebrated Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights this week at our library with a storytime, craft, vendors, dancers, and singers – it was a beautiful celebration. And, I must admit, my…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite Recipes
I love to cook; if you’ve been a reader for a while, I’m sure you already know. I think cooking might actually be my love language. I love finding new recipes to try and often surprise myself with great flavors and new favorites. My partner and I often lean toward…
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9 Young Adult Books for National Cooking Day
It’s National Cooking Day and this is one holiday that I couldn’t ignore! I think most of you know how much I enjoy spending time in my kitchen cooking. I love finding flavorful recipes and sharing them with the people I love. In fact, I think Penzeys Spices has one…
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9 Cookbooks to Inspire Your Little Chef
It’s no surprise that I’m sharing cookbooks on my blog, specifically geared toward kids! I love to cook and I think kitchen skills are useful for everyone to know! My siblings and I grew up helping in the kitchen and even now when we’re all together, we all end up…
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Slice of Life Day 2: Quinoa Crunch Salad
I love really good food! And if I can brag a little, I’m usually a pretty good cook. I grew up in a family that loved to cook and try new foods, so it’s not a surprise that all of my siblings and I can hold our own in the…
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Eat More Veggies
Continuing from my post yesterday about my 30-day yoga challenge for January. I also thought I’d share my first week of meal planning. I’ve mentioned in the past that my partner and I are trying to include more vegetarian meals into our diet, relying less on meat to provide protein…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books that Make Me Hungry
This was one of my favorite Top Ten Tuesday themes! If you can’t tell already from other posts on my blog, I love to cook and bake and eat! Today I’m sharing middle grade titles with great recipes (and a cookbook to get everyone started off on the right foot!)…
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Penzeys Spices
I was so excited last week that I got to order some new herbs and spices from Penzeys! I have a fairly large cabinet devoted to spices and although I have a mixture of grocery stores spices and others from Penzeys, you can really tell the difference. Plus, purchasing from…
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Adulting So Hard
There are some things I never thought I’d get excited about. Things like a freshly mowed lawn, getting a new roof installed, and buying kitchen appliances. But, they do! Which I think means that I’m adulting so hard in my thirties! I don’t necessarily love the act of mowing my…
