It’s been busy around the Sizemore house hold. Diliberto Photo and Design is officially closed for Christmas. We’ll still get your e-mails and phone messages, but it will be a few days until we can get back to you. It’s Christmas vacation, Sizemore style (similar to the Grizwalds but without all the destruction). Last Saturday,…

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Here’s the second installation of the sub category What’s In The Box of The Granola Escapades, which mean’s we’re still going with this whole organic thing! This week we received: romaine lettuce, MORE kale, an unknown green (it’s sitting on top of the kale on the right), cilantro, cherry tomatoes, assorted pears, assorted apples (I…

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My good friend Bethia suggested I make a soup with the kale I received in my first organic co-op share. I searched for some recipes and found one online that I liked but like any recipe I always have to change something, or in this case a lot of things. So here is what I…

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The day after misfit thanksgiving (see the leftover pie on the counter?), an epic thanksgiving, I spent a good hour+ cleaning out the bottom of the oven. Bill thought it would be funny to take a picture to document my cleaning mishap. At the time I was not amused. Today, I’m glad I have this memory.…

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Years ago my grandmother (my mom’s mom) wrote down all of her favorite family recipes in a little notebook for me as a Christmas gift. It meant the world to me then. It means even more to me now that she’s gone (and it will be impossible for me to get through writing this blog…

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I’m more excited for the holidays this year than I have ever been. I’m pretty sure the excitement started in July, yes, July. I’ve been doing a bit of Christmas shopping here and there. I’ve been planning holiday craft projects and gathering materials. I’ve also been testing out new cookie and brownie recipes (much to…

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Once upon a time I managed a cafe, it was probably one of my favorite job to date. This pastry case was my pride and joy. I miss that pastry case. 🙂  

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It never fails that I come back from vacation with 1000 things to do. I felt more prepared and together before we left for this trip than any other previous trip. We had everything packed the day before we left, a complete 180 from my normal stay up until 3am the night before departure just…

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House. Of. Pies. Go there. This is the paper menu that sits under your food on top of brown diner tables. The waitresses still wear those diner dresses. And they have the best food and pie ever. Its a Houston icon. But I’ve never gone there during the day, only late at night or the…

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Any time a banana starts to turn, you know that point where you’re like, “I don’t really think I should eat this, its a bit mushy and the peal is all black spotty”, I toss them in the freezer. If I’m not careful the whole bottom part of my freezer ends up being frozen black…

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