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Part 3: Tee’s Trip to the Pacific Northwest

Day 2 in BC. Really? (Pinch, pinch). Rise and “shine”, Beautiful City.  🙂 We woke up to A.M. drizzles. If waking up was hard to do, decision-making was even harder. With only four days to venture around Vancouver, Mr. Chi-Town and I caught ourselves silently going back-and forth with our to-do list. Priorities change once …

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As it Cooks: Happy Birthday #1

Yikes!  As it Cooks is 1, folks! Here’s my question for you. How did you or how would you celebrate your blog’s first anniversary? There are a few options. Nothing fancy. Bear in mind, it’s going to be in the Great Plains. Option 1: An inviting piece 0f dark chocolate and a juicy, fluffy raspberry …

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Pipe Dreams Part 11: Thanks to Winter Storm Jupiter

Here’s my 15 year old beautiful red bud tree. Like a bird’s eye chillie, she’s one tough cookie. Sadly, she lost a branch during last year’s ice storm. When the going gets tough, this lady keeps going. Today, she’s Jupiter’s work of ice art. Look! She’s so pweeedy! Everything is so quiet and peaceful here …

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Pipe Dreams Part 1: Thanks to Winter Storm Jupiter

What do you do when the mighty ice storm hits, the roads are frozen solid,  and there’s no where to go? I pipe dream. I pipe dream of food. Good food like Chicago good food. As I sit here by my frozen window in the middle of nowhere in the Jupiter-hit Great Plains, I close …

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