Author: Lauren
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Tortellini and Sausage
This is a dish that I’ve been making so long that I didn’t even have a written recipe for it. I usually just wing it, although I’m pretty sure the first time I tried it was using a Publix recipe. Today I’m sharing it with you! Here, it’s served with some butter lettuce. Kristofer and I really…
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Cream Cheese Chicken
There’s this pin on Pinterest for a cream cheese chicken. It looks like a light, breaded chicken… And it goes into the black hole of the internet, never to reveal the true recipe. Which, in reality, is all-too-common of a Pinterest problem. The recipe below is the closest approximation I could find, and it really isn’t…
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Doctor Who Blue Velvet Cupcakes
In celebration of the upcoming Doctor Who premiere, I’m sharing some TARDIS cupcakes I made for a group viewing Kristofer and I are attending! To get a really true blue, use concentrated food coloring, often found in a gel form as made by Wilton. Kristofer and I went all the way to Michaels (not that far away) for…
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Renting 101: How to Assess the Value of a Property You Haven’t Seen (And Don’t Know the Address Of)
The trouble with finding a rental in a totally new place is that you don’t know where the good (or bad) locations are, what a decent rental price is, or even what kind of standards there are. (Like, am I just having bad luck, or are 80% of the houses there over half a century old??)…
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Book Review: The City of Heavenly Fire: The Mortal Instruments Finale
Wow, that title is a long one, eh? I really just want to emphasize that this is the last book in the series, because a) I don’t want to bother discussing any of the others and b) I’m going to tell you about how it really won’t be the last book in the series. Also,…
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Renting 101: How to Find Rental Properties in a New City
Looking for a rental property can be intimidating your first time. Knowing where to find rentals or what you should be looking for is hard — especially if you’re trying to move to a new city. Kristofer and I recently moved to the St. Pete area in Florida, and were looking to live in a…
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Pilot Review: The McCarthys
The McCarthys is a Boston-based, sports-obsessed, close-knit-family sitcom based loosely on the experiences of the creator and producer. First Impressions I like the style of humor and the jokes are funny to me. The highest compliment I can give it is “families are just like this!” Really, I think it catches the essence of how…
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Pilot Review: Odyssey
As far as I can tell, not a lot has been released about Odyssey, beyond the NBC website for it: http://www.nbc.com/odyssey First Impressions There’s no trailer or anything for this show, so not much to find out about it. I only have the promotional photo on the NBC site, with their description: It’s a conspiracy show! Hopefully…
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Pilot Review: Secrets and Lies
Secrets & Lies is a new American drama based on the Australian series of the same name, which aired March 3rd of this year. First Impressions Oh no, too sad already. So the entire season will be the audience determining if this guy murdered the little kid? I’m sure they’ll spice it up, but man…
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Pilot Review: Black-ish
The brain-child of Anthony Anderson and Laurence Fishbourne, Black-ish is an African-American family-centered sitcom. (I originally didn’t even mention “African-American,” but since so much of the pilot episode is centered on cultural identity, I figured it was a pretty important identifier — never mind the title of the show.) First Impressions I feel sort of the…
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Pilot Review: Selfie
#Seflie is a modern, social media My Fair Lady. First Impressions KAREN GILLAN I LOVE DOCTOR WHO. I hate her voice. And she looks super Lindsay Lohan in …a club. (Wait, is that the point?) Does not look funny… buuuut that’s what I’ve thought initially for just about every comedy so far, isn’t it? [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qJAPLypDnE]…
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Pilot Review: Scorpion
</scorpion> is a disaster-fighting drama based on a real-life genius, Walter O’Brien, who helped catch the Boston bombers. In this show, he builds a team of like-minded geniuses who will work together to assist the country in surviving various crises. First Impressions “A tactile team made of of the smartest people on the planet.” This looks…