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[For three weeks, Josh and Katy blogsit]Twenty-eight years ago today, in 1976, my husband Josh was born. Because of this event several decades in the distant past, yesterday I got up early and decorated our house.I had a color scheme. Blue and purple. See, I put up balloons:And I decorated our dining room table! I…

[For three weeks, Josh and Katy blogsit]For many a meal eaten out we work under the strategy of “I’ve got a twenty in my wallet and I don’t want to stop at an ATM machine or bust out the credit card.” Often this is just a noble goal (especially for two people) and we end…

If you are a mostly-idle grad student in the summer, the only other people around to talk to during the day are:A. other mostly-idle graduate studentsB. public school teachers on summer break.Between these two groups of people and those poor troubled souls on Days of Our Lives, I get all the daytime social interaction I…

[For three weeks, Josh & Katy blogsit]Although summer fruits are one of my favorite foods and I eat copious amounts of them each season, I’ve yet to develop an ability to recognize a truly good peach from the outside.For example:Which of these is better? They came from two different sources but they are equivalent in…

[For three weeks, Josh & Katy blogsit]Good morning class! Today we will study HISTORIC EARLY AMERICAN DESSERTS.That’s right! I am talking about desserts that people made in this country a LONG time ago, certainly a long time before you were born. When I am not watching Days of Our Lives or stockpiling cereal, historic early…

[For three weeks, Josh & Katy blogsit]What I am about to relate to you is a horror story of sorts. It starts like this. Two teenagers are making out innocently in the back seat of a car. No. It starts out in the morning, with breakfast cereal.Now I don’t know how you feel about breakfast…

[For three weeks, Josh & Katy blogsit]I know that some of you have been asking yourselves: who is this Katy? Where did she come from? How did she become the accomplished substitute food blogger she is today?You all are so impatient! This information will have to unfold, slowly, like a flower. Meanwhile, let’s be content…

[For three weeks, Josh & Katy blogsit]Lately every pre-work morning has ended the same. I push back my breakfast dishes, pull the paper in front of me and read everything that isn’t about sports or Iraq. At five past eight I look up at the clock, say, “Damn! I should have left five minutes ago!”…

[For three weeks, Josh & Katy blogsit]Do you get it? The title of the post, I mean? It’s “Pizza My Heart.” Like that Janis Joplin song? That’s funny, isn’t it? I made that up.No. I didn’t make it up. It is the name of some Northern Californian pizza chain. I find it clever in the…

[For three weeks, while the Amateur Gourmet is away, Josh & Katy blogsit]This is what the temporary leadership of this site looks like:I (Katy) am on the right. That is Josh on the left. Prince (center) is not part of this blog.Regarding us. We are older than the Amateur Gourmet, and possibly more worldly-wise. We…