Coffee Date: To the mall and back Recipe
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Hi friends! I hope each of you had a great Thanksgiving. Husband and I are slated to celebrate with friends on Saturday, so our only taste of turkey came via a supermarket sample, which surprisingly was accompanied by gravy. Mmm! What did we eat on Thanksgiving? Well, lunch wound up being a quick bean soup I threw together from some black beans that’d been pressure cooked the before. Dinner, a little more exquisite, was a big skillet full of rice with oysters and all the veggies in the fridge, accompanied by refried beans.
So, if we were having coffee I’d pass you a pretty Christmas mug of dark roast and tell you that…
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