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Not a morning person…

March 7, 2012 by Peabody · 10 Comments

When one gets up at 5:30am to clean and one is not a morning person, one does things like run a load of laundry…without the laundry. And before you get all impressed at what motivation I have to get up and clean, guess again. Procrastination led to panic of realizing I had until 11am to pull it together. Forget a cookbook, I need to write about book about procrastination…you know, when I get around to it. :P Also when you wake up that early without really getting much sleep the night before and you stop moving, you will wake up to your dog licking you while you have fallen asleep folding laundry on the ground. Such a good alarm clock dog though. Strange Addictions the show is beyond crazy. I watched per my friend’s insistence the episode where the guy is in love with his car. Not in an oh gee I love my car it is pretty kind of way. But in a tell people you are in a monogamous relationship with said car and have sexual relations with the car. Yes, that’s right, he bones … [Read more...]

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Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind, or forgotten…

March 8, 2011 by Peabody · 28 Comments

“You divorce wives, not children”- Clueless. Now while I don’t have any children out of my marriage, I do have In-Laws. A mother-in-law, a father-in-law, and a sister-in-law. When I was younger whenever we would go to Michigan to visit my Grandma and Grandpa, we would always visit a variety of people who I was told were all relatives. One time while visiting relatives, I asked just exactly who they are…”they are my ex In-Laws” my mother told me. Hold the boat I thought. You got divorced, why on Earth would you want to go hang out with these people? It was explained to me that she liked her In-Laws very much and they had liked her, and so when the marriage ended they kept in contact. For the record, my mom also was still friendly with her ex, with my parents going out to eat with him and his wife when they were in town as well. Back then of course it all seemed odd. And if you don’t like your In-Laws then you can’t relate at all either, but now, I totally get why my mom … [Read more...]

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Gingerbread Stout Cake with Caramel-Ale (yep beer) Sauce…the Ulitimate Black and Tan

October 7, 2010 by Peabody · 28 Comments

I am NOT a cocktail girl. I could think of a lot of cocktails but really wanting to make one into a dessert wasn’t whipping me into a frenzy of excitement ( where I once again probably break the Top Chef Just Desserts rules). I’m a beer girl through and through. One does not throw back a Cosmo or Mojito while watching hockey…it’s against nature. After a week of pouring though cookbooks, I even have one dedicated to Booze, I ended up saying screw it and went with what I love. Beer, a black and tan of sorts to be exact. There are lots of stout cakes out there. Almost all of them are chocolate stout cakes that come out for St. Patrick’s Day. I really loved the idea of the Gingerbread Stout Cake I saw on Epicurious awhile back that then showed up on Deb’s site. That gave me the black of the black and tan but I needed the tan. Enter the caramel made with ale. I chose to go with orange blossom ale, as I think gingerbread and orange go together in a delightful way. If you … [Read more...]