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DebsLunch
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Retired librarian some of the time, foodie & cook for hire the rest of the time. See more at https://www.debslunch.com/blog/
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Cookie Party 2025 report
I tried to give myself a nice long cookie season by scheduling the party on the late side, December 20th. But somehow life intervened and I still ended up with...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Almost a month of no blogging
Sorry to be such a sucky reporter of cookie season. It was so compressed this year. I feel like I missed everything from Nov. 30-Dec. 14 when the party was...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Cookie notes
This cookie season has been marked by lots of things coming out not quite right. By my (overly high?) standards, anyways. Lets go through. Things started off OK with the...
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December 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Thanksgiving and cookie season
The 2025 jam stars in their first ever video. [playlist type="video" ids="14741"] So far I've made the jam stars and the lebkuchen. And I tried out a new recipe for...
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November 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Failure to write
I had all the best intention to write sooner this time, but the best of intentions in Scottish, Robert Burns I think, "gang aft agley". So now I think I...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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More pics, few words
[caption id="attachment_1357" align="alignnone" width="650"] Almond rainbow cookies, 2016[/caption]
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November 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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It just isn't fair
We had a terribly mild fall, warm enough to sit outside well into November, and then I got a snow storm for the night of my party. I guess there...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Halloween in Chicago
We spent last Friday, Halloween, in Chicago. We went down for a double-header, Chicago Symphony in the afternoon, and David Byrne at night. And now it's only Wednesday, but it...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Meanwhile, back in the kitchen
I'm still having this problem where I forget to photograph food. I think it's partially because I feel like the pictures of, for example, a pan of scones from 2025...
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October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Living while reading the news
By which I mean here I am living relatively comfortably, but each new headline is another horror. Trump just says this shit and people believe him. Yesterday I kept seeing...
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October 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Optimism
For pumpkin butter and all manner of things. Optimism is not really in my nature, but I'm trying.  This morning I made a batch of pumpkin butter, which I hadn't...
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October 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Two Fridays in Chicago
And various cooking adventures. The last full week of September, so like a week and a half ago(ish) we spent Thursday and Friday partially in Chicago. Thursday was Mark's birthday...
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October 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Fall?! Weather
Since we've been back from TIFF, about two weeks now, we've entered into this seemingly endless string of hot sunny days with thankfully cool nights. It's bright and blue skies...
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October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Last two days of TIFF50
And back in Madison, nine days+ already. Saturday started with Glenrothan, about a Scottish family and their whiskey distilling business and the son who left and the one who stayed...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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TIFF50, Friday: Four movies & Chinese food
Friday we saw four movies and all of them were quite good, plus we ate delicious upscale Chinese at another Chef Zach recommendation, Sunny's Chinese. The first movie of the...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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TIFF50, Wednesday & Thursday
On Wednesday we had a leisurely morning. Coffee at the Balzac’s at the public library and then breakfast at the AirBNB, then went to see Ballad of a Small Player...
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September 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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TIFF50, Tuesday cont'd.
At Avenue Open Kitchen, We had big plates of eggs and bacon and toast; eggs and peameal bacon for me, and an omelette for Mark. I asked for an orange...
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September 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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TIFF50, cont'd.
Since we last talked, we've seen seven more movies and reached the halfway point of our stay. Actually I think wondering how sleeping on the same sheets for another five...
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September 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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TIFF50
TIFF (Toronto International Film Fest) is celebrating its 50th this year, and we are here for the 7th time. We got in in the later afternoon Friday, taking the train...
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September 7, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Museums and Labor Day
So yea, our last trip to Chicago, Friday & Saturday, we went and saw a couple of shows at the Art Institute, Gustave Caillebotte and and Elizabeth Catlett. We also...
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September 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Looks like I haven't written
Since the 15th, so that means like two weeks plus of no blog posts. I am going to see if I can remember what I did in all that time....
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August 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Republishing
Commentary: Living in the Shadow of the American Dream by Andrew Tait, The Daily Yonder August 1, 2025 I live in Shenandoah County, Virginia. I’m a factory worker. A farmer....
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August 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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70 + 4 Days and off to Denver
We started off my birthday celebrations with a party on Friday. On Saturday we went to the Farmers Market and bought probably too much food for people who were going...
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August 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Turning 70
This year my birthday's a Monday so we started the festivities off with a little party on Friday night. I tried to keep the menu simple - no hot appeatizers,...
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August 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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And what about food?
Of course we've been eating, but I've been cheating a bit on cooking, meaning salads and sandwiches and leftovers, because of the heat. Let's see if i an remember a...
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July 29, 2025 at 11:03 PM