LAURIE ROCKENBECK
My personal and random blog
Coconut…the new miracle food? Oh, and an awesome quick dinner recipe…
My pantry and fridge have always had some amount of coconut products in them. (Oh, I forgot the Coconut Bliss Ice Cream for the picture, so add that mentally.) This is no doubt due in large part to the fact I am eating a vegan diet most of the time and my daughter...
The NaNoWriMo Thing, Again
It's November, and my third year of doing the "NaNoWriMo" thing. Last year, well I blogged about last year. here, here, here, and here. The odd thing I just noticed is my current wordcount shows up on last year's posts. You'll have to take my word for it I did the...
Ambrosia from the Orchard
Last year's quince harvest was lame--a singular fruit that I think I forgot about in the depths of the fridge. In the linked post, I was bemoaning the lack of quince while still dealing with the remaining jars of "not quite jelly" from the 2009 harvest. This year's...
As Seen on TV
In August, we stopped in Spokane overnight on our way back from Montana and stayed at our usual hotel, the Red Lion Parkside. We've stayed there every trip Eastward for years because they have a decent pool, and we know how to find it from I-90. Since we don't get...
Cooking from the Garden
Yesterday, the hubby and teen went off to geekgirlcon , leaving me at home with the younger child who wanted nothing to do with dinner planning. I was lazy enough that all I really wanted to do was stay home and finish the last couple of episodes of "Hell's Kitchen."...
One of Those ‘Big Brother’ Moments
I've had one of those mornings. You know the kind I'm talking about. Everyone was crabby in the morning. We were all snapping at each other, and I found myself overly annoyed at my husband for putting my Farmer John's cookbook on the bottom shelf of the cookbook...
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