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New Frugal Feasts Column Exclusively Today in The Concord Monitor

Photo by Ken Williams for The Concord Monitor You can also read the column over at The Concord Monitor. Who knows, maybe if enough people read it there we could get a raise… Behind Every Book Club So here’s how it started: Suzanne: I think we should do a column on book clubs. We could write about how much fun it is to host, and how much we love getting together with a strong group of women for a glass of wine or three, making a killer dessert and spending the evening in a spirited discussion about a great book. It will be awesome! Robin: Oh sure Suzanne. I’ve never been in a book club; I don’t ever want to be in a book club– in all honesty can’t think of anything worse. Opening my home to a group of women on a random Tuesday night? I have no control over the mass of teenagers wandering about; at any minute one of them could show up freshly showered in nothing but a towel. Not a bath sheet mind you, just a towel. A teeny little towel. Who needs that? And once again, The Fru Gals find themselves on opposite sides …

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Why I Homeschool, and What My Approach Is

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Countertops, A Comparison: Redux

This is one of the most-read posts here on PW Home and Garden, probably because it’s a subject most anyone tackling a kitchen project will have to face sooner or later. I’m bringing it up to the front today, both to share with those who missed it the first time and to update my thoughts on each material since I’ve had a chance to use each and every one for over a year now. ******** Countertops are tricky, and were one of the hardest items for us to decide upon during the whole Lodge remodel project . Because we had different areas of the kitchen to work with, the choices in front of us were endless. It was a labyrinth there for awhile. But now that it’s all said and done, I’m happy with the choices we made. The extra time we took trying to figure it out was worth it. Today I’m going to recap the different countertop surfaces that I’ve known and loved—some are at the Lodge, and some are at our house—and give you the pros and cons of…

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Cupcake By Java House. Photo By Honey Rider.

Wow! What a nice photograph that my friend Julie Staub (AKA Honeyrider ) took of this cupcake. The cupcake is from The Java House in Iowa City, Iowa.

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Pan-fried Corona Beans & Kale

The other day I found myself in the basement of San Francisco’s Anthropologie store. I’d fallen for the rose & tuberose solid Frazer Parfum on my way down, and was at the base of the grand staircase, looking at starlight rings and beaded necklaces, when a pretty lady, sitting with her daughter, smiled at me. A few minutes later she asked if my name was Heidi, and she said she knew me from my site – this site!… I’m so glad she said hello. It turns out we have quite a number of things in common, and I’m sure we could have talked about cooking, or photography, or places to visit for hours. Her daughter was a sweat pea and very patient with us. Anyhow, I feel like I left the house looking for a pair of black ballet flats, and ended up making a friend instead. It turns out she has a site too – and as I was looking through it, this lemon kale pesto with nutmeg jumped out at me. I had some beans soaking at home and decided to somehow weave the beans and the lemon pesto kale idea together. I deconstructed the kale pesto, and didn’t end up chopping…

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Creamy Chicken Lasagna by a Whole Other Robin

Behind every woman who has a job outside the home is a huge pile of dirty laundry. Not to mention a sink full of dirty dishes and a desperate desire to maintain a facade of normalcy. All it takes is a minor stomach bug to bring the whole haphazard enterprise to a crashing halt. Such was Chez Ellinwood last week. I had four down with the double ended stomach flu, and because this is the busy season at Shotz Brewery I couldn’t take a day off. There were piles of unwashed bedding and at least two days worth of dishes shared the table with an empty wine bottle and inexplicably, a half-empty handle of scotch. I admit nothing. Into this catastrophe walked My Whole Other Friend Robin with a Chicken, Spinach and Mushroom Lasagna bathed in about a gallon of homemade cream sauce. It was heaven in a disposable foil pan. I am so grateful I can’t even come up with a snarky comment. How did she know that I needed to be fed, both spiritually and physically? I’m pretty sure the board of health had not…

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Perfect Pot Roast…Redux!

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Meat & Potatoes: Sausage and Potato Flat Bread with Mustard Greens

Meat & Potatoes . I promised a week of Meat & Potatoes . 6 recipes in 6 days. That’s a week in my book. So this is the last of these recipes. My meat is sausage. Spicy Italian sausage. My potatoes are potatoes . Is that clear enough? If not I should also say this is a recipe for flatbread. Meat & Potato Flat Bread with Mustard Greens . I added the mustard greens because spring has begun to sprung here in So. Cal and the hills are alive! Every spring the first things to come alive in the hills near my house are wild mustard plants. That means urban foraging to me. I live in the Hollywood Hills. My street backs up to some L.A. County conservancy property, which bleeds into Lake Hollywood and the land owned by Department of Water and Power, and culminates in 4200 acres of Griffith Park. That is a lot of wild land in the middle of one of the largest cities in the world. As I said, winter rain makes spring come early in California. Julie Andrews has nothin’…

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2nd Day CNY

The 2nd day of CNY is when the married women bring their families to visit their parents. I used to tussle diplomatically with my MIL over the Reunion Dinner. Although I have three brothers, one is single and another sometimes can’t make it back from Singapore for the dinner. The remaining brother came back for the Reunion Dinners only while dad was alive. For reasons only he knows, and I know he’s reading this, he is considered ‘married off’ rather than ‘married in’. My sister goes back to her in laws in Sandakan. That means although my parents have 5 children, only my oldest bro and I will be around for CNY. And because of this, I would make an effort to eat at my parents’ house and then eat at my in laws’. After dad passed on, I still made sure to eat Reunion Dinner with my bro and mom, before going back to my in laws. She was upset initially but I stood my ground. Girls, we have as much rights as the guys to be with our parents! I wonder how other people manage this sensitive issue of which set of parents to eat Reunion Dinner with. I know some will have dinner with their own parents and siblings…

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The Philosophy of Decorating, by Hyacinth the Philosopher

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