December 31st, 2010

Chocolate peppermint bar cookies, finished just before midnight last year as an end-of-year treat.  Probably the last cookie I'll make in 2010.  


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December 30th, 2010

Street vendors on the downtown mall where I live.  In the summer, I bought a few hippie skirts from them.  In winter, they're specializing in shawls and scarves.  If only I had money.

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December 29th, 2010

My boyfriend and I made an awesome dinner last night - he made the rice (Puerto Rican style!) and I made chicken mushroom marsala and had one of those lovely moments when you think that everything looks bad and will taste disgusting but in fact turns out delicious.  

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December 28th, 2010

Snow on holly berries outside my house.


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December 27th, 2010

This is the dessert I made for my family's official Christmas dinner: candy cane chocolate chip cheesecake.  Weather conditions being what they were this weekend, we were unable to make it to the family get-together; tragically, my immediate family and I had to eat the cake ourselves.  It was a painful trial, I tell you.  (My dad had seconds.)


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December 26th, 2010

A White Christmas in Virginia for the first time in my life.  Gorgeous.

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December 25th, 2010

My family does the holidays right.  Merry Christmas, everyone.


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