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Wrapping Presents and Getting Ready for Christmas Eve

We’re at home wrapping presents, baking cookies, and getting ready for the family dinners that are coming up in the next couple of days.  Since Aaron and I are gifting stock this year – almost all of the transactions were completed yesterday with a settlement date of the 26th – there isn’t a lot left for us to do.  However, to give the kids something tangible they can open under the tree from us, we went and got industrial size boxes of their favorite candy along with an explanation of how their stock in The Hershey Company is going to work.

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Searing Chuck Roast for Dutch Oven Recipe

Do Any Of You Have a Steak Brandy or Cognac Butter Reduction Recipe?

Ten or eleven years ago, I went to a steakhouse in Omaha, Nebraska during a trip home from college.  The chef that day had decided to make either a brandy or cognac reduction sauce using the drippings from the beef.  Feeling adventurous, I decided to order off menu and see what it was like.  The word incredible doesn’t even do it justice.

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Closeup of Caramel Pecan Apple Pie Josh and Aaron

A Really Easy Caramel Pecan Apple Pie Recipe You Might Want to Try

I mentioned yesterday that I baked a caramel pecan apple pie.  We had some surplus homemade pastry dough and granny smith apples from the two granny smith apple pies I made on Thanksgiving, using my favorite apple pie recipe.  I wanted to try something different, and needed to find another apple pie recipe that didn’t require a top crust as I had just enough to cover the bottom of a pie pan to use the leftovers.  I began the search, ultimately settling upon a perfectly rated derivation from a publisher called Taste of Home.  

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Baking Apple Pies in the Oven

Happy (Early) Thanksgiving Everyone!

Aaron asked me if I would make a couple of my apple pies for Thanksgiving with my family tomorrow.  It’s been awhile since I baked this particular pie recipe.  He brought it up three or four times, each entreaty accompanied by ever-escalating puppy dog eyes, so I knew he wanted me to do it even though I was planning on making some sort of specialty cake in the spirit of the honey lemon bee hive dessert I baked a few years ago; maybe a giant pumpkin or spice cake, in the (appropriately enough) shape of a pumpkin, with a cream cheese glaze drizzled over it; even better, perhaps a chocolate peanut butter bundt cake!  (Normally, I like vanilla cake with buttercream frosting but who doesn’t like chocolate and peanut butter?!)

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Il Lazzarone Pizza St Joseph Missouri

You Should Try the Wood-Fired Italian Neapolitan Pizza at Il Lazzarone

We met up with friends at a new wood-fired Italian Neapolitan pizza restaurant that opened 45 minutes north of Kansas City called Il Lazzarone.  This is the same group with which we regularly try new restaurants, though I’ve been terrible about posting them all over the years.  We sat inside for hours talking about everything from economics, rental…

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Mail Bag Question for Joshua Kennon

Mail Bag: Do You Still Hold Index Funds in Your Charitable Foundation?

A reader asks, “Unless I missed it, I believe it has been many years since you talked about your foundation (foundations?) and the passive investment approach you use for it/them.  Do you still buy index funds?  Has anything changed?  I enjoy hearing about that part of your life and am thinking about setting up something similar.”

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Grocery Store Tomatoes

We All Won the Lottery (Yet People Still Think the World Is Going to Hell)

I’ve been busy with family stuff lately, and, as part of that, taken several trips to the grocery store over the past few days.  I was standing in the produce section looking at the fruits and vegetables when I experienced a sense of awe.  It’s a human tendency to take for granted the things into which one is born but it really is incredible when you take time to reflect upon, and appreciate, the inheritance we all enjoy because of the men and women who came before us.

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