{"id":3788,"date":"2017-07-28T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betondinner.com\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2018-03-09T01:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T01:53:42","slug":"food-thought-14-june-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/food-thought-14-june-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought #14: June & July."},"content":{"rendered":"

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1.\/\/ In an awesome head-in-the-sand, I-don’t-need-my-calendar-in-the-summer move, I just found out my oldest daughter starts kindergarten on August 15. In my head her first day was in September, and I kinda feel like I just got cheated out of\u00a02 weeks of summer vacation!\u00a0She’s over here dancing around the house in her backpack, though, so she’s thrilled. I guess she’s allowed to be this grown up?!<\/p>\n

2.\/\/ One of my very favorite sources for recipes is Mel’s Kitchen Cafe<\/span><\/a>. #fangirl This summer we fell in love with\u00a0her Monterey Chicken<\/span><\/a> (it’s obviously awesome with the cheese + bacon + pico, but we’ve gone simple with just the marinade and it’s so good that way, too). And my middle daughter’s birthday is just a few days after mine, so I let her have cake<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(oh, that cake!) and\u00a0made this peach frozen yogurt<\/span><\/a> for my birthday. I used lime juice instead of lemon. It’s practically health food, but YUM.<\/p>\n

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3.\/\/ I’m slowly updating (old, embarrassing) iPhone 4 + fluorescent kitchen lights pictures from the blog’s early days! I posted some of my very favorite recipes back then, and it’s fun to see them looking shiny and new and delicious. Most recently, I forced myself to make (and consume, in less than 24 hours) 2 loaves of this crusty no-knead bread<\/span><\/a>\u00a0so I could take new pictures. I’ll probably have to start working on the Christmas cookies soon. Life is so hard.<\/em><\/p>\n

4.\/\/ My girls were happy to help eat the bread, but they decided they don’t like honey butter – and would prefer to have their bread buttered…with honey. KIDS ARE SO WEIRD. Please tell me yours are as weird as mine.<\/p>\n

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5.\/\/ I’m working on some fun thiiiings! Eeek! Blog projects tend to take me forever since sometimes I lay on my couch and watch Food Network Star and Tiny House Hunters or read (just finished Jojo Moyes’ new book, The Horse Dancer<\/span><\/a>! So good!) instead of working on them – but hopefully I’ll be able to share them with you soon. Please tell me what I should read next!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1.\/\/ In an awesome head-in-the-sand, I-don’t-need-my-calendar-in-the-summer move, I just found out my oldest daughter starts kindergarten on August 15. In my head her first day was in September, and I kinda feel like I just got cheated out of\u00a02 weeks of summer vacation!\u00a0She’s over here dancing around the house in her backpack, though, so she’s…<\/p>\n

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