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My boss was born and raised in New York.  She and I have had discussions about New York bagels before.  I’ve bought “New York Style” bagels before and brought them to the office and she would say “these are nothing like New York bagels – it’s all about the water.”   So when I had about 45 minutes to kill before meeting up with everyone to...

If you don’t follow me on Facebook or Instagram, I am sorry to say that I did not win the recipe contest.  But I was a winner in so many different ways!  But, I am tired.  My flight didn’t get in until 11:15, we were home at midnight and stayed up talking until about 1:00 a.m.  Um, the alarm didn’t sound too good when I...

For some reason over the last few years, I have become afraid of flying.  It’s just all the noises, etc., and I especially don’t like turbulence.  But I know in order to fly, literally and figuratively, you have to get outside your comfort zone and just have a quiet confidence that everything I’ve done has led me to this week in NYC. Okay, well, I’ll...

You would think that after living in Chicagoland for 46 years I’d get used to the unpredictability of the weather.  Now while fall is my favorite season, I like fall like temperatures starting in October, not September.  That was the temperature when I left for work at 8:00 a.m. yesterday.  So while we got away with starting our wood burning stove last night, this morning...

Holy balls did it get chilly around here fast!  We never got past 52 degrees yesterday, and this morning it’s again 49 degrees.  Although I know better.  You never know what fall is going to be like in Chicago – in a couple weeks we could see temps in the 80s again – you just never know. I ate the last of my breakfast biscuits. ...

Tony went to the store the other day to pick up a couple things and picked us up a couple bagels.  The last bagels I bought were from Mariano’s and they tasted like ass.  Tony’s favorite?  The Asiago cheese bagel.  Mine, of course is the Everything bagel.  Many years ago I worked at a law firm in Chicago that daily provided bagels, milk, orange juice,...

So I got more information about my trip to New York next week.  Um, turns out I’ll be staying in Secaucus, NJ.  Monday I shop for my food.  I originally made my recipe two servings, but now I have to rewrite it to serve six.  I don’t think I necessarily need to triple every ingredient, but I’ll figure that out.  And it’s not a timed...

Over the weekend I bought a pint of raspberries for .99 cents – score!  Except. . . not so much.  When I got to work to put my breakfast parfait together, I popped one in my mouth and they were so sour.  I don’t mind sour, but with plain Chobani AND sour raspberries, I ended up adding a couple squirts of sugar free pancake syrup...

This was probably the least productive weekend I’ve had in a long time.  Most weekends I have a mental laundry list of all the things I want to do, make, cook, bake.  But I woke up with a cough both Saturday and Sunday.  While Tony slept Saturday morning, I drank hot tea with lemon and quietly chopped up veggies to make a roasted butternut squash...

It’s rare for me to be sick.  I get bronchitis maybe every five years or so for a few days, but other than that, I hardly ever get sick.  A couple days ago I could feel a tightness in my chest.  Last night my head was feeling stuffed up and I went to bed at 11:00 on a Friday night – we almost always stay...