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    Starting Over. Again. (Or, I’m going gluten/dairy free.)

    While I like the idea of the new year being a great time to start over and try to eliminate bad habits or form new ones (good ones, that is), I have no problem admitting that I suck at resolutions. I mean, heck, in my New Year’s post, I specified the things I would do *this year*.) Um. Yeah. To date, I’ve kept zero. ZERO. I don’t know if I’m more disgusted with myself over my neglect of the blog (*brushes off cobwebs*), or of myself (*brushes off cookie crumbs*). Although I suspect they are related… but that is another post. Tomorrow, perhaps. And there is the slight niggle that absolutely…

  • An American in Wales,  confession time

    You Want Me to Eat…What?????

    One exciting thing about moving to a different country is the opportunity to try new foods. Granted, British cuisine has historically been panned (particularly by the French) as being plain and bland. This is definitely not the case, although I will say that much of the food we traditionally associate with the United Kingdom falls in the category of comfort foods. There was, of course, a learning curve as many foods we eat in the US are known by different names here: eggplant = aubergine zucchini = courgette french fries = chips Whereas (potato and other) chips = crisps gelatin = jelly (and don’t think that doesn’t cause puzzled looks…