My first macaroons

User almond meal instead of almond flour, so they look a little whole wheat-ey...

Dessert

Chocolate bombe, white chocolate raspberry mouse filling

Main course

Rosemary garlic lamb chop with mint chutney, asparagus with champagne hollandaise, gorgonzola rosemary mashed potatoes

Intermezzo

Cantaloupe champagne sorbet

Fourth course

Salmon tartare on endive.

Third course

Tomato bisque

Second course

Bistro salad

First course

Poached shrimp with avocado salsa, raw milk brie on crackers

Table is set

For Anju's birthday dinner.

Christmas Party kids

Her blue period

Easel and paints for Christmas

Christmas cookies

Mich's sushi

Chad roll

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Book donations

Needs organization...

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Punk rock Christmas girl

Chocolate bombe

Chocolate mousse inside chocolate cake covered in chocolate ganache.

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Driving the library van today...

In the snow.

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Snow angel

With a little grass,  too...

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Playing in the snow

Only an inch or two, but enough to play in.

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Star Wars amigurumi

Thanks,  Mom!

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Birthday cupcake

Soup course

The waiters

Cupcakes x 2

For later...

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Disorganized bookshelf

With frog.

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So that's sorted

Better late than never...

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Smoked oysters?

Not sure why these are on our counter. They fall into the category of food that I would only think to eat if I were scrounging for calories in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

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Little Red and Gandalf the White

You shall not pass!

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Berries

I know, random. But - berries!

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Scraped up

Took a little fall out on the trails.

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Leaf pile

With kids.

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Morning

Coffee...

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Chinatown

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BART

Six Flags closed.  Heading into the city.

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Road trip ready

Six Flags here we come!

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Veggie pizza

So proud of my pizza...

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Sick day

Waiting for the Tylenol to kick in.

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Hand-me-down fashion show

Thanks Auntie Kristen...

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Pumpkin carving party

Kids everwhere...

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Successful cupcake mission

Cupcakes are my archnemesis. But today I prevailed.

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Lego morning

With toenail polish.

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Pumpkin beer lineup

Although I'm not tasting much...

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Pumpkin cookies

Cream cheese frosting, cinnamon and sugar.

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Book stack

What's currently on my "to read" pile.

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Reading percentages

I often get into discussions with people about what I'm reading, or what type of books I tend to read, I usually say that I read about 75% non-fiction. I got to wondering the other day if that was right, and decided to do a back-of-the-envelope calculation based on my lists of books I've been keeping since 2007. Here's how it came out:

2007: 45% non-fiction
2008: 72% non-fiction
2009: 62% non-fiction
2010 (so far): 64% non-fiction

Averaging 60.75% non-fiction. So in the future, I'll round it off and claim 60%.

 
Challa in...

 


Challah out.

All dressed up

 

The kids, all gussied up for Nanny's birthday brunch...

Sofia Stuff

Little Sofia lost her first tooth the other day. All excited about the tooth fairy, etc. Fun stuff. Here's here new grin:

 

Also, thanks to a co-worker of mine who was cleaning out some stuff, Sofia now has her first dollhouse. She's really into it, but unfortunately she only has one doll that is appropriately sized for it. We'll have to remedy that this weekend...