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Entries for the ‘Food’ Category

Five years ago: an emerald crater lake and a La Avelina ice cream.

Five years ago we were in the motherland and enjoyed the natural beauties of the Andes mountains. In this picture my wife stands before the emerald crater lake of Quilotoa. On this trip to Quilotoa I was already victim of trying to eat all I could of the delicious foods of my childhood. From [...]

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Quito patrimonio y grandes memorias

A city in a valley surrounded by snow capped mountains, some of them active volcanoes. The homeland of my beloved mother, a land where my wife fell in love with and a city that will be turning 474 years old.A lot of stories and memories can be gathered from those days. The culture, the songs [...]

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Finally a meat pie!

I’ve been craving a meat pie for the last two years, and my wife has heard me share that desire. She is widely known as a fantastic pie maker, especially her crust. This weekend I finally convinced her to make a beef pie out of a great pot roast we had the other day. The [...]

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Sidetracked, but for a good reason…

We just had supper with some good friends of ours Sean and Shannon. My wife made a great turkey lasagna, and a delicious chocolate tart for Shannon’s birthday. While enjoying the visit, Shannon enlightened me in the world of Pandora.
It is a great way to create a music file of long lost groups or songs. [...]

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Germans beat vikings and Argentina scores goal of the tournament

June 24 gave us my birthday, a delicious pineapple upside down cake made by my lovely wife, an tasty ice cream cake made by my mother-in law and two very good soccer matches.
The first match was decided in a short time with two goals from Lukas Podolski. Sweden had an opportunity to bring the game [...]

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My phone company - on vacation for the weekend.

This weekend our phone company, Bellsouth decided to do some work in our neighborhood. The price of the work cost us three days of no phone or Internet. It becomes a problem when you are doing your graduate studies online. Well, the solution was Panera’s bakery.
Sunday afternoon I took my G4 iBook, purchased a Jones’ [...]

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