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I’m Back, Baby!

July 13, 2018 By Food Retro

It’s been a bit of a long haul from then to now, but I’m back, baby. A lot of stuff has happened. 

Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, Life With Food Allergies, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: gluten free, Life With Food Allergies, Tales

The Merry Bagel Chase (Or, That Time I Baked Hockey Pucks)

January 13, 2017 By MomRetro

Holidays with family usually involve recounting embarrassing stories of each other. This past New Year’s Eve, one of my earliest baking attempts managed to make the “remember when….” list. Perhaps not quite as memorable as the Swedish Chef (from the Muppet Show) shooting holes into his bagels, was the story of the time I tried…

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Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Tales

Food Challenges: Hypocrisy or a Lesson in Judgement?

May 8, 2015 By Food Retro

I’ve got people firing cannon shots at me over my decision to put my family on a version of the SNAP challenge for the month of May. I am a hypocrite, some say, for being a middle-class person “pretending to be poor.”  If you believe this is true of me, here is what I say to…

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Filed Under: Deep (Granola) Thoughts, I Can't Make this Stuff Up, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Hunger Games, Tales

The Littlest Accountant

February 20, 2015 By Food Retro

Hubs and I have an ongoing joke about kidlet: he’s probably going to be an accountant someday. If you ask him what he wants to be when he grows up, the answer is vague. I suppose that’s okay; after all, mommy never exactly figured out what she really wanted to do with her life either…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, I Can't Make this Stuff Up, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: #streamteam, Tales

Once Upon a Time, I Wanted to Write Books

January 14, 2015 By Food Retro

In the category of “things you probably don’t know about me,” like many most writers, I knew I wanted to write for years. This was something that was encouraged, and even lauded as part of a familial tradition. My grandfather was a writer, although he was more of the historian persuasion–he’s actually responsible for a…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, I Can't Make this Stuff Up, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: #streamteam, parenting, Tales

Things I Didn’t Do Because of #NaBloPoMo

November 30, 2014 By Food Retro

It’s November 30, which means that today is the last day of #NaBloPoMo. So you’re probably thinking: THANK ZEUS! I know I am. I have been just about running dry on ideas. My house needs to be cleaned. My cats are feeling neglected. I’ve got a persistent twitch in my left eyeball.  All the fun…

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Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: #NaBloPoMo, Tales

Things I Read Thursday – Bad Romance

November 27, 2014 By Food Retro

  Most of my reading the last little bit has been taken up with reading and shopping for cookbooks, which is SUPER exciting, I know! Mostly it involves looking for ideas that haven’t been done to death for a new twist or an old classic, especially now that I’m writing for YMC. Oh, right, I…

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Filed Under: SLIDER, The Answer is 42, Things I Read Tagged With: #TIRT, Health & Home, Tales, Things I Read

2 Pairs of Underwear: Better Than One

November 22, 2014 By Food Retro

Lately, kidlet has been wearing two pairs of underwear at every opportunity. I can tell, because he also runs around in just his underwear at every opportunity, usually with his arms jammed down the leg-holes of the superfluous pair (don’t ask, I don’t know, but at LEAST it’s through the superfluous pair). Incidentally, this has required…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, I Can't Make this Stuff Up, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Health & Home, logicfail, Tales

The Celebrity Dinner

November 12, 2014 By Food Retro

I made it about 1/3 of the way through #NaBloPoMo before my brain failed me and I ran out of something to talk about. It could have something to do with the fact that I’ve used up all my food recipes and haven’t made anything new yet, because when your nose is stuffed, it’s hard…

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Filed Under: Deep (Granola) Thoughts, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: #NaBloPoMo, my general weirdness, Tales

The Food Bloggy Bucket List

November 11, 2014 By Food Retro

You know the best part about #NaBloPoMo? I realized I have about 40 posts in drafts that are in some random stage of completion. I guess this is a perfect opportunity to clean them out. So I found this one where I started writing about things that I want to do as a food blogger/kitchen…

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Filed Under: Deep (Granola) Thoughts, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Health & Home, Tales, things I want

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