Dog Days of Summer

It is so hot, people are making videos of themselves cooking eggs on the sidewalks. There are huge fires in California. People are leaving their kids and dogs in hot cars to die… Seriously how does this keep happening??  August is almost here and at some point I will be

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It’s Hot!!

It’s hot and humid out and all I could think of is something cold and refreshing.. Lemonade!  plus something to take the edge off a long week of stressful BS from all that is going on in the world ,  the country and the hot kitchen I work in.  I

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Ghostbusters Food Fun

Hi my name is Lauri and I am a Nerd!!…. Hi Lauri….. I was a Nerd before it was cool there were not web pages like The Nerdist or geek and sundry. I cosplayed before there was cosplay it cannot be proven as cell phones were only something you saw on Star Trek

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Peru & The Pisco Sour

Ever since I was a child I have been fascinated with  Peru, Inca’s and the many lost or hidden cities. Stories of cities in the clouds Machu Picchu and lost cities of gold deep in the Amazon Jungle.  I developed  a fascination for far away lands in dark mysterious jungles who

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Favorite Camping Meal

I have thought a lot lately of how lucky I was to grow up when I did, the 70’s were a pretty awesome time to be a kid. Yeah I know the internet and video games are super cool I love to use them heck I am blogging for crying

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Summer Fun

I have been blessed the last few 4th of July’s to be able to wake up with this as my view each morning.  I feel so lucky to have this time  and the people I spend it with in my life. I take much thrill in prepping food for this

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Molded Salad.. Why??

At a point  in human history approximately the mid to late 1600’s some guys( a French Dude and an English Dude will forever be locked in a who’s first battle) discovered that If you boil beef bones you get a gelatinous pure protein. ….Fast forward thru the Napoleonic Wars where

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Memorial Day

I live in a town outside of Columbus Ohio called Westerville. Its just small enough to feel like a little town but big enough to have all the things you get in a city. We are a small college town we know and talk to our neighbors. We have great

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Little Surprises

I have been very busy making plans for Tripping Vittles. I have taken some classes on line, I have enlisted the help of friends who know more than I about this big internet world.  Part of the plan is to set a schedule and stick to it. That said I

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