Author: Laci

Food Friday: Couscous Salad

I considered posting something lovey today for Valentines but decided that there are enough red and pink hearts spamming the internet today. Instead you get a new recipe. Keltin and I don’t always manage to eat healthy (possibly because baking is fun and tasty) but I am a firm believer that healthy food can taste

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Looking Out the Front Door

My recent trip to Kansas and exploring the history available right down the road made me wonder what I was missing out my own front door. What spots of history do I drive past without a second glance? It turns out that there is a decent bit that I have been missing. One of these

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Recipe Review: Pulled Pork Ramen

Pulled Pork Ramen

For Christmas I received some new cookbooks and I tried a new recipe that turned out too pretty not to share. From Eat Delicious I attempted the Pulled Pork Ramen. It turned out pretty well for my first attempt at mostly homemade ramen. Overall a flavorful recipe but I will change a couple of things

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Wedding Planning Update: Part II

We took engagement photos last fall and they turned out beautiful and I just had to share them. I have also found my dress! Now, we are down to planning the details. Our photographer did a MAGNIFICENT job. The park we took these at was packed and you would never know it from the photos.

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A Bit About Flour

I love cooking in general and baking but cooking is an art where baking is a science. And part of that science is having the right type of flour. Now, I won’t pretend to know how the different types of flour affect a recipe but what I can tell you if how to make different

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January Book Haul

So I have been in a reading slump lately, but I picked up some new books at a used book sale at Recycled Books that will hopefully help get me out of this. The Ice Dragon by George R. R. Martin This is actually intended as a children’s book but I couldn’t pass is up.

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Kansas: Wagon Bed Springs National Historic Marker

While at the Historic Adobe Museum we learned about the Wagon Bed or Lower (Cimarron) Spring. This spring was used by those traveling along the Santa Fe Trail. Due to modern farming methods the spring itself has gone dry but you can visit the estimated location of the spring – as long as you don’t

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