Author Archives: Kelli Miller

Making lemonade

So it’s winter. Snow, bitter cold, yada yada yada. But little boys seem to be pretty good at making lemonade out of lemons… tunnels out of snow drifts… fortress walls out of snow blocks… camouflage out of Christmas tree branches… … Continue reading

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Winter

“There’s a point where you can give up on winter–when temptation can enter your soul, prying its way in like cold air through the cracks in your cabin–around January sixteenth or so, and this can make you realize that February’s … Continue reading

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Iowa Food Coop, January

Yummm, pork chops! The January order cycle has opened for the Iowa Food Coop! You can place orders until 11 p.m. January 16th, and delivery will be on Thursday January 21st. Our most popular offerings at the Coop seem to … Continue reading

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Change

The view to our west has changed lately. It now sports a brand new wind turbine. The turbine belongs to Osage Municial Utilities, which Matt works for as a lineman. His part in this was to hook the turbine into … Continue reading

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Ritual

Hot chocolate on the stove has become a daily ritual over Christmas break. I think it needs to continue. Preferably with salty, buttery popcorn right before bedtime.

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Apparently I lack some sort of tidiness gene. But the pizzas were really good.

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Happy 2010!

Happy New Year! I’m glad you all made it safely into 2010 🙂 Rafe and I joined my grandma for the nursing home New Year’s Eve party yesterday afternoon. With the Meitner Brothers band providing the music, Rafe took his … Continue reading

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Roast chicken in wine & broth I’d forgotten how I’d drooled over my sister-in-law’s Le Creuset roasting pan when we visited last Christmas…until I opened their gift to me this Christmas morning. Somehow, cooking it in a beautiful, fancypants pan … Continue reading

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Thank you

scooping out from the Christmas storm So here we are, in that in-between time. Still ruminating in the blessings of Christmas, and looking forward to flipping the calendar to a new January. It seems an appropriate time to say Thank … Continue reading

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How to Cook : Pizza

I really can’t believe, out of all the recipe posts I’ve done, that I’ve never done pizza! It’s an almost-weekly meal at our house during the fall, winter & spring months. (And I’m working on mastering pizza on the grill … Continue reading

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