http://terrelltravels.com/blog I'd rather be traveling Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:19:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here's the January book column that I wrote for Wide World Books & Maps. Their new web site seems to be coming along. Looks like there will be an archive of newsletters starting with December 2008. Terrell's Front Table Books  This is my favorite column of the year to write. At the ... http://terrelltravels.com/blog/2009/01/06/january-front-table-books/ We had a black-eyed pea-off at the family gathering on the 1st. It's George III's birthday so we bullied George IV into letting us come to his "new" house to celebrate. John made black-eye spread. Chris and Cindy brought black-eye and ham tamales. Leta made a stew from her grandmother's ... http://terrelltravels.com/blog/2009/01/02/new-year-cooking/ Happy New Year! Time to look back at those resolutions from last year and see how I did. #1 Write Every Day. Hmmm. I have written articles and Front Table columns for the newsletter every month. I've blogged a reasonable amount and I did a little work on my travel journals. I ... http://terrelltravels.com/blog/2009/01/02/new-years-resolutions-and-reviews/ Merry Christmas ya'll. (We're in Texas these days, remember?) We had the big family Christmas shindig last night at Thom and Trish's house. Trish had decorated the house beautifully and Thom made yummy tenderloins on the grill. Everybody did well with the food this year. Mark did his usual good job on ... http://terrelltravels.com/blog/2008/12/25/more-holly-homemaker-doings/ I finally went back to check out nephew Marshall's video channel again. The new shoes thing is really well done. Check it out. http://terrelltravels.com/blog/2008/12/20/marshalls-vid/ I got inspired by Bon Appetit's blog envy article and decided to photo document the steps of the soup I made yesterday... Winter Greens Soup Adapted from The Greens Cookbook by Deborah Madison (At least, I think that’s where it came from.) The main changes I made were halving the recipe, using ... http://terrelltravels.com/blog/2008/12/17/food-blogging/ From Wide World Books & Maps' December newsletter... (Links take you to the bookstore's website where you can buy the books if you are so moved.) Terrell's Front Table Books This December Front Table is rather a surprise. As we head into the holiday season and toward the end of the year, ... http://terrelltravels.com/blog/2008/12/06/decembers-front-table-article/ The Seattle store's new way of sending the newsletter has pretty much done away with the archives, so to keep my front table articles where I can find them, I'm going to start posting them here. If you click on the links, you'll be at the store's website where you ... http://terrelltravels.com/blog/2008/11/24/november-front-table/ Went for a nice ride today on tiny bike. Check out the map (with comments, I can't resist comments) here. http://terrelltravels.com/blog/2008/11/14/nice-ride/ Where does the time go? Every time I promise myself to blog more regularly, it takes me even longer to write the next post. So, what's been happening... Made lunch for the Mah Jong ladies--wow, was it three weeks ago? I was trying to think of something fall-ish for the menu ... http://terrelltravels.com/blog/2008/11/12/over-the-last-month/