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Welcome to the revival of Paula Peck’s recipes, revisited and modernized by granddaughter, Megan Peck. A look into the process of testing and updating recipes from cookbooks written 50 years ago by an Paula Peck, friend and apprentice of James Beard and The New York Times critic Craig Claiborne. Written during the 1960s when frozen dinners and canned soup were practically considered gourmet. Recipes such as ceviche and kima curry were exotic ideas that had not yet infiltrated the U.S.

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This is the personal blog of a wife and husband who enjoy DIY (doing it yourself). We do home improvement projects, gardening, crafts, dog training and more. We love to learn new skills and try them out.

This will be the journey of the 30-something, wife and mother of four that likes a little adventure and would like to get the "to do" list done with a smile, challenging myself to do a little of this and a little of that for about 30 days or 30 times. It is a small challenge that will hopefully open the door to trying lots of little things along the way. I kind of figured at the end of the day there may be a little something for everyone.

"How Breezy got her groove back"  This is the story of a young mother rising from the ashes of frumpy mom syndrome. Plus really cute pics of my baby : )

My blog is about the foods that I grew up eating mixed in with a bit of musings of my life.  I mainly blog about  foods from the Caribbean and Guyana but I also toss in foods that I've come to love which can be from any and every culture or cuisine.     

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Kel always said that she would have her own career in her forties, and briefly realized that dream before falling into the role of "trailing spouse" and relocating from the Pacific Northwest to Michiana in 2011.

She often looks around her and asks "how did I get here" with the Talking Heads accompanying her thoughts.

The mother to two teenage daughters she wears her graying strands of hair and deeply pressed anxiety lines with pride, knowing that someday they too will have daughters.

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Kel is a Master Gardener, Master Composter/ Recycler, and Naturally Beautiful Backyards Host Gardener (2007, 2008). She has lived in USDA Zone 8 (Western Garden Zone 6) for most of her life and just recently relocated to Zone 5!

Our Hen House produces resources that you can use in order to find your own way to create change for animals.  Using video, audio, interviews, reviews, and the written word, it provides daily updates on what you need to create change. Changemakers come in all shapes and sizes –artists, grassroots activists, academics, lawyers, students, business moguls, media darlings, etc. No matter what your niche is, Our Hen House aims to give you what you need to be part of a new world for animals.

We garden and observe nature in zone 7 Northeast Oklahoma. Our 3 acres is mostly open space but the planted areas include fruit, vegetables, flowers and butterfly gardens.

The world is full of pain. We can not escape it, we can not make is dissapear. The most amazing people I know are those who have learned to turn their tragedies into triumphs, their pain into passion for life, and the broken peices into an image of imense beauty and strength.

Overcomingloneliness delvs into the world of pain, with the view there is a purpose for every pain, trial, and sorrow we experience. Wether it is the pain of Loneliness, fear, disapointment, abuse, there is a purpose and meaning.