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    Pomegranate Pineapple Sparkling Water

    June 20, 2017 /

    The minute the weather gets nice in Ohio, I start to feel like summer is here, and just as quickly I start to worry that it’s passing me by.  I just love summer so much, that I sometimes forget to appreciate it because I’m busy worrying about watching it slip through my fingers.  It’s the same way I feel on the weekend.  I’m SOOOO happy it’s Friday, but by Saturday morning, I’m already starting to lament the fact that time is progressing towards Monday.  Or, in the case of summer, I worry that we are progressing towards winter.  When I spend a perfect sunny day stuck inside, I silently curse,…

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    Tropical Fruit Salad with Toasted Hazelnuts and Coconut

    April 18, 2017 /

    I literally woke up this morning in the middle of a dream about tropical fruit salad.  It started with plantains (which did not make the cut in my real-life salad because they have no business there), but then it snowballed into mangoes and pineapples and toasted hazelnuts, and all sorts of things that I ended up REALLY wanting to eat.  And thus, a goal for my day off was born!  (Or at least a second goal that would compete for attention with my previously established goals of washing my sheets and taking the dog for a run.  I think I can find time for all three… ) Why was I…

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