Quotidian: daily, usual or customary;
everyday; ordinary; commonplace
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Joy: when I score the diner’s biscuit scraps.
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Not every meal I make is beloved by everyone. Not that that stops me…
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Sunday.
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Tip: when making carrot cake, stir orange marmalade into the cream cheese frosting.
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“Pushing the leftovers” is my other part-time job.
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Some days it feels like a sport almost.
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The world’s smallest egg: a no-yolker.
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According to our church’s newsletter, my daughter’s birthday is not applicable.
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We celebrated anyway.
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The feast.
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The cake of her choosing: a cheeky wee bakery cake.
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Not sure what it is, but he built it.
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The vet visit wiped him out.
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Ironing out the holes in the yard.
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Pandemic Science: open doors, masks, and physically distanced.
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If you want the grill to get fixed, just announce you’d love to grill some steaks if only the grill worked, and then sit back and watch the magic.
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A crisp, breezy afternoon with dear friends: the remains.
This same time, years previous: roasted sweet potato salad, a few good things, one-pan roast sausages with vegetables, the quotidian (3.6.17), the singing bowl, by the skin of my gritted teeth, wintry days, oatcakes, just me and the boys.
2 Comments
Rose Shenk
The cherry bounce was unbelievable.
Thrift at Home
ooooh, I have homemade orange marmalade and I will definitely follow your suggestion for a carrot cake!!
Yes to all the leftover skilz! Please write a post about the life of leftovers at your house and all the attitudes (=/-) and all the creative transformations or feed-it-to-the-animals ends. . .