Last weekend Karen and I did something I’ve had on my To Do list for a long time: go on the Atlantic Ave. Underground Subway tunnel Tour. The tunnel is officially the oldest subway tunnel in the United States and the only way to get there is to climb down the manhole in the middle [...]

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A few weeks ago, Karen and I set off for a Fall vacation. This was the plan: fly in to San Francisco for 1 night, go to Napa for 2 nights, drive up the coast of CA (1 night), spend 1 night in to Portland, OR before heading to Vancouver, BC (2 nights) and finally [...]

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Sasha loves to eat snow from Karen Bonna on Vimeo.

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In what has become a great little tradition, Karen and I had my mother over for dinner this Christmas Eve. We made a roasted chicken, green beans sauteed with mushrooms and crushed almonds and I took a crack at making potatoes-au-gratin - a childhood favorite of mine that my mother used to make.

After dinner, Karen [...]

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Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas! Enjoy the food, gift giving and family time today. We hope you get everything you asked for from Santa.
Love,
Team Kane Street

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For the last several years the Bonna kids and our Bonna Mom get together to bake the Christmas cookies for the upcoming holiday events: Christmas, Scandinavian Christmas and Christmas Eve Brunch.

This “holiday” started out as a way for us to learn some of the Norwegian recipes that my grandmother baked for us every [...]

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TOAD: Dec 19th, 2007: Every year Karen’s family celebrates Scandinavian Christmas and I am surrounded by all things grey and fishy. Last year I decided that I would stop complaining and step it up by making something Scandinavianof my own that I could get excited about.
I ended up making something called Medisterkaker, which loosely [...]

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This was a weekend of multiple birthdays and before we got to Micah’s , we were out on Long Island to celebrate our nephew Kota’s 1st birthday. Jeff, Chieko and The B’s really put together a stellar day.

First off, there was an inflatable water slide and a badminton court setup.

The culinary spread was outstanding. [...]

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Ok… we’re WAY behind on these so I’m just going to get the up there. So as you know we moved to a new apartment back in July and a few weeks later we had a BBQ to answer the following question: Is the North Slope is as good a place to have a BBQ [...]

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I actually don’t have much to add about the Need for Speed race aside that it was awesome fun. Getting up at 4:15 isn’t sweet, but hanging out with a group of old and new friends was definitely great times.

Here Alex hands off the rfid “baton” bracelet to me. I love how serious he looks [...]

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