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<\/a><\/p>\nAnd the little guy even got sorbet out of the deal. I love my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You gotta love those slogans. Actually, my favorite one is, “Pork: the other white meat.” Seriously? But that’s neither \u00a0here nor there. Perhaps that slogan actually got into my brain somehow on a deeper level, the cheese one. Because today at Casa Turner|Augustine (Taugustine?), it was cheese day. 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<\/a> So, we made ricotta cheese this morning (goal 27!). Right there in our home kitchen. And I felt like Ma Ingalls again, and I spent a minute swooning over Michael Landon, because that happens every time I feel like Ma Ingalls. This time, I got so into it, that I felt like I should go face Mrs. Olson at the mercantile.Hey, I spent many childhood hours watching Little House on the Prairie on TNT.<\/p>\n