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I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. Our younger son flew in last Saturday to spend the holiday with us, and his visit was just the boost I needed to bring me out of my funk. Here he is with John yesterday, checking the roasting chickens on the rotisserie.

We always cook two so we have leftovers and so I can freeze some of the meat for a casserole or chicken pot pie at a later date. Plus, it doesn’t take any longer to decontaminate the kitchen after prepping two chickens as opposed to just one, so may as ...

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Our day was quiet, so we skipped the Thanksgiving fare and planned a menu around a 3-pound beef tenderloin so we could play with some more features on our steam oven.

When we built our house, instead of the standard, built-in double oven configuration, we splurged by pairing a conventional 30-inch single oven with a steam oven and have never looked back.

In fact, we love this appliance so much we’re not sure we’d ever live without one again. It does wonders for your leftovers, elevates a fruit pie to professional chef status, hard boils ...

After a lot of pondering and playing, I finally settled on the quilt motifs for a top in my UFO pile, which was made from a pattern called Kwik Krazy Quilt.

My quilting strategy is to ditch quilt between

1. all the rows and columns
2. the blocks and the border(s)
3. major patches in the blocks

Once the layers are stabilized with the ditch quilting, the free motion quilting designs are added. While it is time consuming and a tad boring to add that much ditch quilting to a project, I feel better knowing that the quilt has a better chance ...