by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on February 1, 2012
Almost five years ago, I got the news that my job had been eliminated. Thanks to lack of funding, a change in curricular direction, and a few other various and sundry reasons, I was no longer employed at the school at which I’d worked. I was devastated. Was I a good teacher? Had I done [...]
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by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on December 24, 2011
Being a Spanish teacher who is fairly obsessed with food and food traditions has its benefits. In addition to being able to share these traditions with my students, I relish opportunities to eat and recreate them. I know the glory that is queso de cabra al horno en tomate or goat cheese baked in tomato [...]
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by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on November 21, 2011
I’m a sucker for lemon desserts. I love chocolate and caramel, but sometimes, nothing but a mouth-puckering lemon bar will do. The love affair with lemon began at a young age when, at Poppin’ Fresh (then Bakers Square) I was introduced to the glory that is lemon meringue pie (even though I called it lemon [...]
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by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on May 13, 2011
I hope you’re all enjoying the guest posts these last couple days… I’ll be back to regular posting soon when life calms down a bit. I’m very happy to bring you the author of one of my favorite blogs, and one of the first that I felt comfortable enough to comment on, Tina from Carrots [...]
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by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on April 3, 2011
I know I don’t usually blog about lunches, since, you know, this blog is called “What’s for Dinner?” and all, but yesterday’s lunch was definitely “blog-worthy”. I do have to rewind a bit. When I was in college, I was in a sorority. I met some of the most amazing women during my time there, [...]
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I threw together a batch of caramel the other day. I didn’t really know what I was doing, or what I would do with said caramel, but I just knew I had to use up the half cup of heavy cream that was taking up space in my fridge, and doing the culinary equivalent of [...]
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There are few things prettier in this world than a rainbow. I was always that kid in elementary school who had to hoard one of each of the “rainbow colors” so that I could write each letter on my worksheet a different color. The margins of my assignments often had little cloud-capped rainbows in them, [...]
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I’m humbled and grateful for all of your kind words and condolences over the last week. It’s been, by far, the most difficult situation I’ve ever been through, and each comment and Facebook message would raise my spirits just a little bit. The healing has only just begun, and all of your support has been [...]
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by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on December 7, 2010
Last year for Hanukkah, Adam and I headed out to my mom’s house, and I told you all about how she’s the latke queen. This year, instead of heading to my mom’s house for Hanukkah, we went instead to a wonderful Hanukkah party hosted by Adam’s mom and stepdad in Northwest Indiana and I was [...]
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I’ve always held a spot in my heart for meringues. Apparently, when I was a little girl, we’d go to Baker’s Square (then called Poppin’ Fresh) for pie, and I’d always want the “Lemon Syringe” pie… have I mentioned that I was a special child? My mom would make lemon meringue pie, and until one [...]
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