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Baked Pear with Red Wine Glaze

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I’ve been stuck in a bit of a rut with having my raspberries for Date Night desserts.  Judging by the constant sale on them at the local Publix, you’d think they were in season all year long!  But it’s time to force myself to start exploring something new for desserts.  So for the most recent Date Night, I still stayed with the theme of roasted fruits & ice cream by having a roasted bosc pear with a red wine glaze.  While I usually associate pears with a fall dessert, this one will probably make it’s way into my spring repertoire quite a few more times!

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Date Night Eat

Spinach and Mushrooms

Sauteéd Spinach and Mushrooms

On a recent trip to Chicago, I had the chance to eat at Gibson’s which, if you haven’t been before, is a carnivore’s treat!  I highly recommend!  But to the point of this post, one of the sides we enjoyed was sauteéd mushrooms and spinach.  It was so good that I had to try and make it at home.

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Date Night Eat

Date Night Dinner: Spicy Roasted Cauliflower

Roasted Cauliflower

One of my newest food obsessions this spring is cauliflower.  On a recent visit to The Olive Branch, I had their roasted cauliflower for an appetizer and it could’ve easily been an entreé in and of itself!  I’ve been looking for good meat substitutes that have enough density to make me feel like I’m eating something hearty and cauliflower, especially when roasted with some spices definitely makes the cut.  It’s like a vegetable steak!  

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Woodworking

Rustic Farmhouse Bed – Reader Projects!

***Update***  I’m trying to get as many reader photos as I can up on my Facebook page, so check out https://www.facebook.com/edhart.me/ for other reader projects.  They look great!!! ***

I confess I’m a little late getting this post up, but I wanted to highlight one of my reader’s rustic farmhouse bed projects since it turned out so nice!  Ronnie was also the reader that inspired me to rework the original queen sized plan into a king size rustic bed plan.

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Date Night Eat

Date Night Appetizer: Grilled Artichokes

Grilled artichokes

A few months ago, we ate out at J. Alexander’s.  I honestly can’t remember anything about that dinner with the notable exception of the grilled artichokes we had as an appetizer.  First time to ever have them grilled and I was totally sold.  They were awesome!  Since that dinner, I’ve tried a handful of different recipes, mixing and mashing techniques from the internet until I ran across Tori Avey’s method from toriavey.com.  She nailed it!

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Content Marketing Create Learn

How to Embed Interactive Calculations in Adobe PDF Documents

So I’m the poster child for writing niche content these days!  Here’s another one for those of you who want to put interactive calculators in your PDF documents, but need some more advanced functionality than basic arithmetic functions.  Like, who would read this stuff anyway??

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Creating a “Torn Paper” Frame Effect in InDesign

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One of the recent issues that I ran into with InDesign is that the program doesn’t have the same brushes and advanced masking capabilities that Photoshop does so when it comes to creating a document element like an object frame that looks like it was made from torn paper, InDesign presents us with some challenges.

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Eat

Basic Pan-Seared Tilapia

Making a pan-seared tilapia is really easy.  The hardest part is deciding what kind of seasoning or sauce you’d like to have on the fillets, but with fresh tilapia, they’re good even with just salt, pepper and freshly squeezed lemon juice.  This recipe is really just to instruct on the cooking method for pan searing the fillets.

Ingredients

  • 1-2 fillets per person
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Seasoning of your choice (I like Cavendar’s)
  • Lemon for searing and garnish

Directions

  1. Pat fish dry with a paper towel.
  2. Sprinkle fish with salt & pepper and seasoning
  3. Heat 1 Tbsp Olive Oil and 1 Tbsp Butter in a cast iron skillet over medium-high heat.  Allow the skillet time to get hot.
  4. Sauté the fillets for about 3-4 minutes (depending on thickness) on each side, squeezing lemon juice on them during cooking.  Tilapia should be lightly golden and just cooked through.  Use a fish spatula (larger, thin & slotted) to turn the fillets without tearing them up.
  5. Transfer to the plate and serve warm with lemon wedges
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Live

Who is a Refugee and How Did They Get Here?

Ran across this infographic from World Relief that is really helpful in understanding the process by which a refugee gets to the U.S.  It’s also important to be clear about who, exactly, is a refugee versus, say, an illegal alien or an internally displaced person, or an asylum seeker or a migrant.  Each term has a specific meaning (with an associated legal status).  When engaging in conversations about the current global refugee crisis, it’s important to define the terms since there’s a tremendous amount of mis-information that’s being fueled by the media. 

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A Personal Take on the Refugee Crisis, Part 3

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The third and last group we visited with was Friends of Refugees which is a community organization with the mission of Helping Refugees experience an abundant life in flourishing community and from what we were able to see, they are making an impact in Clarkston!

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