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The Leap Floral blog is the beginning stage of what I hope to be my exciting, fun, and beautiful future. I hope you enjoy my musings on gardening, flowers, recipes and other stuff. The inspiration for the name of my future shop comes from my Aunt Nancy, her favorite saying is "leap and the net will appear." When I was surprised by a forced career change, I was freaked out, but she (and the rest of my wonderful family) explained that now was the best time to make my dream of being the owner of a great little shop come true. So, I took the leap and here it begins...




Thursday, March 3, 2011

Food and Friends


Last week, after many weeks of planning, my wonderful neighbors and I got together for a mid-February patio day. It was my turn to cook and I decided that Indian food sounded good. This decision was somewhat out of the box for me considering that there are spices that I've never even heard of involved (Mango Powder, anyone?). Also not an easy task? Cooking for serious foodies. But, alas, a task that I felt I was up for. I made Vegetable Korma and Chicken Madras from recipes that my Step-dad has perfected.

--Side note -- One of the coolest Christmas gifts ever was created and given to myself and all my siblings this year... A cookbook chock-full of family recipes and photos, in a basket with all kinds of crazy ingredients (Mango Powder, anyone?), a very cool gift indeed.

The photo is the prep work that I did at home and the tray I brought down to the neighbors so I could cook (and drink) at their house. It was a definite success.

1 comment:

  1. I'm glad you're back (though it did take me 2 weeks to see that you are, in fact, back)! I missed your posts.

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