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Lorena on December 2nd, 2011

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Lorena on September 20th, 2011

I’m not much of a cook, but when I saw this photo on Pinterest, I thought… “how hard can that be?”… and the answer is not hard. Not hard at all. I followed the link to bee in our bonnet, where she wrote about how to make it, and my first thought was that yeah; [...]

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Lorena on March 23rd, 2011

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Lorena on March 18th, 2011

It was really hard to choose this week – I had four I wanted to feature for various reasons! The rest of my 2011 photos can be viewed here.

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I think I forgot to post about this. We’d been watching an HBO series, Treme, with Aunt Gay, Uncle Joe, and Barbara. Every few weeks we’d get together for dinner and to watch an episode or two. We finally had time to watch the last two episodes, and clearly that called for an appropriate dinner! [...]

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Lorena on August 18th, 2010

So, last night, a friend and I were talking about the greatest salad restaurant ever, Sweet Tomatoes, and lamenting the fact that there isn’t one in Gainesville. Seriously? With all the granola-crunchy hippies in this town there’s not a place to eat devoted to salads?! And she mentioned Crispers, and maybe I would like to [...]

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Lorena on May 28th, 2010

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Lorena on November 5th, 2009

(Originally posted… oh, lawd… some time in early 2004) Lorena’s Chex Mix Everybody always asks me how I make my Chex Mix. Before I tell you that, you have to sit through a history lesson. My grandmother always made this Chex Mix at the holidays. Quite popular, it was, and I was never able to [...]

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