Category Archives: Food

food & crafts

By lee | August 20, 2010

Knitting is always fun and yesterday was no exception. Besides the knitting and quilting and beading and sewing, we all love to cook. You really couldn’t ask for more! Lynda baked a fabulous cake out of the Simply Organic cookbook. The cake is lemon basil and it is amazing. I wouldn’t have thought basil would [...]

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Old Friends

By lee | August 13, 2010

My best friend in high school was Miss Kitty Finklea. We did everything together. We got into trouble together, saw each other through lots of teenage angst and were around for some big milestones in each others lives. After high school, we went to the same college for the first two years.  These are our [...]

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Jeanne’s Birthday

By lee | May 12, 2010

In our knitting group, we always celebrate birthdays. We try to find the snarkiest cards possible for the birthday gal, and we make lots of delicious food. We celebrated Jeanne’s birthday this week and it was loads of fun.
Look at all this wonderful food.

Janet made the enchiladas and I must say they were divine. Susan [...]

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Olive Oil Cake

By lee | May 7, 2010

Rick and I have been pondering Olive Oil Cake ever since we went to a special Harvest dinner last year at Lucca. The theme of the Harvest dinner was tomatoes and every dish had tomatoes in it. Dessert was olive oil cake with a tomatoe compote. It was delicious.
We’ve been looking for recipes and the [...]

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New Years Brunch

By lee | January 2, 2010

Today we had the annual New Year’s brunch with our SWIRL (Society for Wine Inbibing Radical Liberals) group. Ruth hosted the brunch and set a lovely table. Southern was the theme for the food this year, somehow due to the fact that I said I would bring my cheese grits casserole. (Thanks, mom!) Everyone else [...]

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