Author: Leslie
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Pastel de Choclo
Paula spoils us when she visits us in Nashville. Yesterday she made us a typical Chilean dish called pastel de choclo – I think the closest translation would be corn casserole. It’s typical to Chile the way grits are typical in the U.S. south – a simple but delicious corn staple. The ingredients (for 10…
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Chupete and Choripan’s Nightmare before Christmas
Our poor puppies. They are completely drained after Friday night’s “adventure.” Nuestros pobres cachorros. Estan completamentedestrozados despues de nuestra “aventura” del Viernes. It all started out in the afternoon when Javi got off work early. The Christmas Parade was going on Friday night downtown where he works and his office got out early so they…
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A Very McClure Thanksgiving
A couple of my friends mentioned that Thanksgiving is their favorite time of the year because it kicks off the holiday season, and I agree wholeheartedly. Thanksgiving is great because you get to see your family, take off of work / school for a few days, and you know there is still a month to…
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Happy Thanksgiving – and a 1944 Thanksgiving letter
Oh my. I’m more full than I expected. I thought my mom’s Sunday meals were preparing me for Thanksgiving, but I ate maybe 15 helpings of food. Javi couldn’t handle it…He’s been passed out on the couch for about 2 hours. Uff. Estoy mas llena de los que esperaba. Pense que las comidas de mama…
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Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
The latest edition of our we-love-East-Nashville-and-local-stuff series is dedicated to Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams. It’s located right next to the Silly Goose off of Eastland – and it really is splendid. They have ice cream flavors you’ve never been able to find but always wanted to try: salty caramel, Bangkok peanut (I think this one…
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Decorating for Christmas: final touches
Javi and I JUST finished decorating. I think. You didn’t really think I’d make that much of a fuss about Christmas and decorating and then just throw up a tree and put some lights on it did you? It didn’t even have ornaments on it!! Javi y yo RECIEN terminamos de decorar. Creo. No creian…
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Our pupsters and their new tricks
We wanted to post a quick video on this lovely Saturday afternoon of Chupete and Choripan showing off their new tricks. Chupete’s latest one is “up!” – he gets up on his hind legs and hops around for a bit for his treat. We are hoping he’ll eventually be steady on his hind legs, but…
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Last Sunday, and why I decorated early
So yes, where was I? Sunday. Right.On Sunday, I spent most of the morning / afternoon working with Samantha again on our paper, so we’ll skip right ahead to where the fun stuff happens (unless you really want to hear about our data analysis…[results available upon request]). On Sunday afternoon, Javi and I went…
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Epic Show Flier
UPDATED VERSION BELOW!!! So last night I asked Javier to make me a flier for my next show at Puckett’s on December 23. I wanted a flier similar to the banner on this blog – a stick figure or some similar drawing so I wouldn’t have to use a photo of me singing like I…
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Our local OMG
I know I know – Javi and I keep going on and on about our neighborhood and how awesome it is but really, I do think we uncovered the coolest corner of Nashville when we moved to South Inglewood. Maybe it wasn’t always Nashville’s best kept secret, but now that Riverside Village is realizing its…
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The “Heather and Brian Show” Wedding
Let me tell you a little bit about my cousin Heather. Heather and I grew up wearing matching dresses that my grandmother made for us, and the only reason I REALLY loved those dresses (I hadn’t learned to appreciate that my grandmother made them or that they were darling dresses) was because it was SO…
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A Colorado Brunch
The way my cousin tells the story, my grandmother and grandfather were driving through Colorado with their kids (my dad and his 4 siblings) and their car kept breaking down, so while they were on the side of the road fixing the car my uncle Scott had plenty of time to marvel at the mountainous…
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Camila and Bruno – Our Brazilian Guests!
Last week one of my closest friends Camila came to visit me and Javier for a couple of days with her boyfriend Bruno. Camila is ALWAYS on vacation (she’s Brazilian and Brazilians get 30 days of paid vacation and many more holidays than we get, so this was a 20 day trip for her but…
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Making Dumplings – Nepali style
Last Saturday our friend Bhumika had my Sociology cohort over to her apartment to make dumplings! Bhumika is from Nepal and she told us ” the Nepali idea of getting together and having fun is making and having mo:mo: or dumplings.” Last year our cohort got together all the time because we always studied statistics together…
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Happy Birthday Chupete!!
Chupete turned one yesterday! This time last year he was just a tiny baby pup. We got Chupi a couple of days after Christmas last year, and it turned out he was a Christmas return! The family who adopted him originally said he was too rough for their kids (shocking – he was a puppy…
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OCCUPY Los Rodriguez Life!
Javi and I went to the first Occupy Nashville protest last Thursday at Legislative Plaza – go Nashville! I still wish I could go to the Occupy Wall Street protests and marches with my trusty Nikon but Occupy Nashville was a great way to show our southern support for the movement. Javi isn’t really the…
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A little update
It’s starting to feel like our posts are fewer and farther between, and I’m sure most of that feeling is a function of mid-semester blues. And while Javier is not in the middle of the semester, he’s bearing the brunt of my slacking off around the house, doing all kinds of incredible work like tearing…
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Stuffed Peppers!
My parents and gma came over on Sunday night for dinner and my mom made my dad’s favorite – stuffed red peppers!!! I was a stupidly picky eater from my childhood all the way up to my second year in college so I missed out on some of the best foods on earth, including stuffed…
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Ring the Bell
Javi and I realized last weekend that our screened in porch, which is locked most of the time, makes it kind of hard for folks to knock on our door to let us know they are standing outside. We never had a doorbell in the first place, even on our front door, so we decided…
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Dale Hollow Lake!
Back in April two of my best friends from high school, Danielle and Gretchen, FINALLY started planning a reunion trip with our friend David, his girlfriend Sarah and me and Javi. We’ve been talking about planning something like this for several years and Gretchen finally got the ball rolling trying to figure out when our…
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