December 2008

boys, burgers, breaking dawn, and a future brother-in-law!

December 29, 2008

I know I’ve been MIA for the last week or so, but it’s the holidays and I’m actually really enjoying this little mini-vacay/hiatus from my online life.  I’ve managed to accomplish three-dimensional real-life things like: make out with my [I think I'm almost ready to start calling him my] boyfriend while he’s back in town [...]

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Lunch Break Lessons (Getting Schooled in Learning How to Take Things in Stride)

December 22, 2008

I had a very stressful lunch hour. There was unnecessary and ridiculous traffic going east-bound on 494 between Hopkins and Bloomington, which really should only take me less than 20 minutes. The ONE place I needed to go to get gift cards was having issues with their gift card/credit card systems and the service didn’t [...]

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I enjoy cooking with wine; sometimes I even put it in the food!

December 19, 2008

Again, I pretty much kick ass in the kitchen. Kate totally inspired me with this recipe, but I took it and ran with it Donifying it enough that I came up with a dish that completely flavor-fucked my mouth.  Want details?  Of course you do. I like cooking, and it’s often my own personal therapy.  [...]

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Viva Napoli! (Pizza, Beer, and the Power of Viral Marketing)

December 18, 2008

Thanks to Emily (and everyone else locally that re-tweeted and/or re-blogged it), every-Twincian*-and-their-mother I hit up Punch Pizza this week for their free margherita pizza (or $5.95 off any other pizza!). I went with two of my three roomies to the one in Uptown/Calhoun at the Lake/Excelsior split on the North end of Lake Calhoun.  The parking [...]

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Doniree's Test Kitchen, Volume Fungus

December 17, 2008

I’m pretty much awesome in the kitchen.  I have no formal training (unless you call phone calls to my mother asking about the cook time for a piece of chicken or how to dice tomatoes – which I still haven’t mastered), and while I own cookbooks, I don’t use them all that often. My cooking [...]

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