Showing posts with label fireplace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fireplace. Show all posts
Monday, November 3, 2025

Fire No. 100: Inaugural Fire of the Fall Season

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The kitchen addition to the Roediger House was completed in 2009, and upon the masons' recommendation we let the fireplace and chimney c...
Friday, March 7, 2025

A Late Last Winter Gasp

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It was a welcome sight to awake Sunday to bright sunshine after the exceptionally rare night of nine hours’ sleep. We were back in the upper...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Meal No. 3807: Mushroom and Shallot Salisbury Steak

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The crew of marvelous regulars was here for the final Saturday night of February. Our gatherings haven’t had the frequency we had come to lo...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

A Stubborn Winter and Roaring Fire No. 97

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A good night's sleep upstairs (where it's warm!) brought me into the pre-dawn awakening of this past Saturday morning. The happy rou...
Friday, January 10, 2025

Meal No. 3777: Ultimate Cream of Tomato Soup

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This past Sunday was definitely a winter's day, complete with temps around freezing, a tease of lovely snow, and a steady cold mix of sl...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Welcome to 2025

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The holiday spirit never settled on me this year, even though I cherished gatherings with friends and the delightful addition of my brother-...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

First Fire of the Season

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With last week's winter solstice, we made the official change to the season of winter. But this has been an abnormally cold December all...
Sunday, February 4, 2024

Meal No. 3530: Korean Beef & Broccoli Bowls

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Ready for something a smidge different, I adapted a Korean beef stir fry on the final day of January, added roasted broccoli, brought out le...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Meal No. 3525: Cheddar Potato Soup

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Boy howdy, has it been a very January-styled January thus far. Quite a bit colder, as will be grumbled about in subsequent paragraphs, but l...
Friday, January 19, 2024

New York-Style Bagels

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Back in the shutdown days of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, I tried making homemade pretzels , which was not a bad little experiment. As ...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Meal No. 3517: Carne Adovada

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It was a second night in a row with the always appreciated Mookie over for a hang, thanks to the packed agenda his dear Kristen was followin...