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Oh, yeah, a plant update

The latest in my world of plants:

Wall O Water tomatoes aren't doing any better than the ones in the house under the lights

A few of the tomatoes I've been keeping under the lights in the house are doing GREAT

More plants from inside

More tomatoes from inside

The mixed window box is doing great!

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Other things I've made lately

A crazy cheesecake for DM’s birthday. You can click the picture for the large printable version.

Raspberry Chocolate Cheesecake

It was reallllllly good! Kind of labor intensive, but worth it!

Getting ready to make the cheesecake.

 

Ta Da!

Chicken, Mexican zucchini, and orzo soup

Cheese and green onion quiche

Asian noodle soup

Strawberry Agua Fresca

Pizza with [...]

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L.A. restaurants

Last week I went to L.A. We ate at the usual spots!
First was Amici Trattoria.

Mom and Chris at Trattoria Amici at The Americana At Brand, Glendale, CA

I have to figure out how to make this stuff!

Amazing bread at Trattoria Amici

Chris had their famous little meatballs and a salad

I had penne with broccoli [...]

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Rancho Liborio Mexican food and my attempt to copy it

Somehow I recently got on a Mexican food kick. But I wanted real Mexican food, not chain restaurant Mexican food. We’ve been to a few local places and remain unimpressed, so I thought I’d go ahead and make it myself. We went down to Rancho Liborio on South Circle Drive to get ingredients (BTW, they are a [...]

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Trinity Brewing, Colorado Springs

Mike’s mom wanted to take us out for his birthday at the beginning of the month and I had recently read about Trinity Brewing in Sunset Magazine so I checked out their menu online. They use a lot of local ingredients and lots of their items are vegetarian which is good because his mom is a [...]

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