Off the Grid
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on May 20, 2013 - 2:12 p.m.
Lest you think I’ve fallen into a well (where is Lassie when you need her?), or taken a month’s grand tour of Europe (I wish), I haven’t posted a blog ...
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No Visa Required
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on April 23, 2013 - 12:32 p.m.
If you have been reading my blog these past three years, you probably have learned that I’m a fan of ethnic food. Now, essentially, probably other than hamburgers or hotdogs, ...
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Perfect Every Time
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on March 31, 2013 - 6:14 p.m.
The plates and flatware used for our Easter lunch are in the dishwasher, and I’m sitting here basking in a self-satisfied glow, full of ham and good thoughts. Everyone is ...
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Coffee Break
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on March 2, 2013 - 11:23 a.m.
I’ve been on vacation all week and this is the first time I have been able to sit down and compose my thoughts for a blog post. So, am I ...
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Lazy Days
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on February 17, 2013 - 7:45 a.m.
After a very busy work week, family week, solving the leak in the basement week, and then seeing my Saturday filled with ticking off my ever present checklist, (groceries, laundry, ...
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"Hungary" for Goulash
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on February 3, 2013 - 9:52 a.m.
When I was a kid, I thought “Goulash” was a hot dish of elbow macaroni and ground beef mixed with canned tomato soup. If we were really feeling rebellious, or ...
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Cold and Flu Season
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on January 22, 2013 - 10:04 a.m.
I looked at a map of the United States the other day that had a color schematic of the amount of flu presently found in the country. It looks like ...
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I Hereby Resolve...
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on January 6, 2013 - 12:14 p.m.
Hi Readers. I’m back from a self-imposed hiatus. Busy work and family projects kept me from posting over the holidays. Hopefully 2013 will be a bit calmer! So now it ...
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A Gluten Free Thanksgiving
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on November 18, 2012 - 9:44 a.m.
Over the river and through the woods to my sister’s house for Thanksgiving this year. She offered to take on Turkey Day, and then we are hosting Christmas at our ...
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"TV Dinners" from Scratch
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on November 4, 2012 - 3:17 p.m.
Are you old enough to remember the TV dinner in the aluminum tray with the divided compartments? Yes, kids, there was a time, in the dark ages before microwaves, when ...
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No Need to Knead
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on September 16, 2012 - 8:11 a.m.
I thought I smelled a whiff of autumn brought in by a cool breeze yesterday. It was just there for an instant and then gone. But in that moment, I ...
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Tomato, Tomahto
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on September 1, 2012 - 10:48 a.m.
For the last three weeks, I come home every night to find one or two or seven tomatoes on my kitchen counter. We are having a bumper crop this year. ...
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A Good Egg
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on August 11, 2012 - 2:35 p.m.
I consider myself a fairly practiced home cook—I guess most people would tend to feel confident if they have done something most every day for the past 30 years or ...
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Now is the Summer of my Discontent
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on July 22, 2012 - 9 a.m.
Thursday evening, my husband and I went with a small group of friends to the American Player’s Theatre near Spring Green to see Richard III. We didn’t get home until ...
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Grill to the Last Drop
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on July 8, 2012 - 8:31 a.m.
It seems that more and more as I sit down to write my blog this hot summer, the first thing I think about is food related to the grill. I ...
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Smoked Fish and the Island Life
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on July 1, 2012 - 7:27 a.m.
I had to go up to Ashland earlier this week for work, leaving one morning, returning the next afternoon. For those who don’t know, Ashland is as close to the ...
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Stock It To Me
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on June 24, 2012 - 9:28 a.m.
Did you ever start a simple project and end up instead going down a long endless trail until you circled back to the thing you were going to do in ...
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Pomp and Circumstance
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on June 10, 2012 - 7:39 a.m.
I read the Graduation insert in the Gazette this past week and was amazed at the size of it. It seems to be the final toll of the bell telling ...
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Bented and Dented
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on May 27, 2012 - 7 a.m.
A three day weekend is upon us and that means (for us anyway) a grilling extravaganza. We have planned no less than 3 meals revolving around the grill, culminating in ...
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California Dreamin'
Posted by LISA PARSLEY on May 6, 2012 - 10:29 a.m.
I feel I need to apologize for being so tardy in my blog posts of late. For some reason, I am getting more and more on my plate these days ...
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