On dropping my basket, staying put, and jumping off a cliff

I keep wanting to tell you all this story, but the problem is, I don’t know where to start, or where to stop. I’m almost clear on what’s in between. Almost. So I’ll pick the most obvious starting point, and we’ll see how we go. My dad died. I went through the last semester of Mount Holyoke kind of o

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Focaccia (sourdough)

A flat bread made from a very wet dough and flavored with herb olive oil. I had never had focaccia until I bought my first bread book about 10 years ago. I had just gotten interested in making breads and Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice was the perfect book for me (it is still the main

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Focaccia (sourdough)


Panna Cotta for dodgy chefs

Chronicles of Melonhalla is most definitely not a food blog, nor am I a food blogger or photographer. But, we are champs in the eating department, and love having people round to Melonhalla for a meal. So when I find an easy recipe that makes my cooking look better than it is, I am onto it! This Pan

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Panna Cotta for dodgy chefs


A Farm Wife’s Meal Planner

Summer is coming. Right?! Farmers will be busy if it ever warms up and kids will be playing sports and yard work will need to be done. Schedules will be crazy for every one especially moms and wives who want to feed the family and not run through the drive thru. I was struggling with a new blog post

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A Farm Wife’s Meal Planner


Social medias

yeah, as promised, another entry. This will be quite short. Yes, short. Initially on previous post, I want to talk about this things that I will write here but I strayed. Hahaha. Typical me. Lost focus. Okay, actually I just want to talk about my social media discovery these few months. It was reall

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Social medias


Bordeaux, I love you so

Family, I must tell you something. I am so lucky to be here at this place and time. Like I explained to you, an apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ came to this land and left it an apostolic blessing. He blessed the members, he blessed the missionaries and he blessed the people of this wonderful land.

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Bordeaux, I love you so


How to Generate Content

In Tuesday’s post on using social media, yachiru asked a great question: I’ve got an author blog and no idea what to put on it. Hey, I got rejected again by the same magazine? Yes. Yes. Absolutely. ( I do.) Not all content is equal. As notodette discovered, sometimes guest blog posts (yay! The blog

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Book Club Dinner

We had our end of term dinner party last night and it was great fun. Everyone brings a favourite dish along with them and a glass of wine is very welcome, as we chat about a variety of things plus, of course, books. We have a list of books for each term and for those books not yet received from the

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Book Club Dinner


Chocolate Peanut Butter Bunnies – Homemade Easter Treats

Sponsored by WholePort Who doesn’t love peanut butter and milk chocolate together? Peanut butter cups are one of my favorite treats. Living in China, that is one candy you are lucky to find! So when I got this LOVELY silicone bunny mold from Whole Port (found HERE), I was so excited to make some pea

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Bunnies – Homemade Easter Treats


Wonderful Techniques To As A Effective Prepare food

Always employ an airtight pot to save cooking components including glucose or flour.Maintaining the food in airtight storage containers will end them from spoiling or becoming contaminated with insects. You can easily discover cost-effective storage containers and are definitely worth the tiny amoun

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Graphic 45 French Country Book in a Box

Created a Book in a Box for Recipes….all from Graphic 45′s New French Country 8 x 8 paper pack and their 8 x 8 box…the book has 4 sections covered front and back…fold them to form a triangle for the recipe page you want….Patti from Queen’s Ink in Savage, MD bought it for a store sample…lov

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Honey Garlic Chicken

I priced brisket for my Seder last week, and I must admit I was a bit floored by the prices. When you host a big family Seder like I do, you need a lot of brisket. I’ve been known to cook up to 7 large briskets to feed the crowd. We’re talking hundreds of dollars for one Seder! This year, with the e

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Honey Garlic Chicken


Book Recipes

What is an easy and tasty recipe for chicken? If you have any home cooked recipes or anything out of the Book Recipes that would be awesome Easy, Easy, Easy, and absolutely wonderful. Use boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Thawed completely Add a little bit of parmesan cheese to italian style bread

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Book Recipes


Banana "ice cream"

Last Friday after looking undesirably at my to do list, I figured that my time would be better spent in the kitchen. I cleaned out the refrigerator, made chocolate chip cookies, and looked around for something else to do. I eyed the four remaining bananas and thought that I would try the banana “ice

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Banana "ice cream"


Future Perfect Tense

The future perfect tense is called futur antérieur in French. A looking back, if you will, in the present to the past as seen from the future. Here’s an example: Au moment où j’ai cinquante ans, j’aurai compris ce que je vais faire quand je serai grande. (“By the time I’m 50 years old, I will have f

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