Liquor-ish
Daugher, not knowing how to spell licorice asked how liquor and licorice are similar, thinking they were from the same root. She thought perhaps licorice was liquor-ish.
Food
Butterscotch Potion
Life often happens by accident. Daughter was unloading the dishwasher and I told her to put the small Pyrex bowl away. I couldn’t remember their formal name so the only thing I could come up with was “carafe” but I knew that was wrong. First I had to look up the word carafe. Daughter couldn’t
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Plenty
I received a lovely new cookbook for my birthday: Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolengi. I have to admit I was a bit overwhelmed at the first page turning event. I’ve spent 20 years in the Mollie Katzen world. I created my pantry, refrigerator and buying patterns based on recipes from
Why would you do that to perfectly good blueberries?
I had yummy ingredients in hand: Cucumber, basil and strawberries from the garden, blueberries from the local farm, and 25 year old balsamic vinegar. I set it on the table and Daughter says “Why? Why would you do that to perfectly good blueberries?” Sigh. DH even looked at it dubiously. He knew better than to
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Fried Green Tomatoes
I’m not a deep-fry cooking kind of person. I prefer things raw, baked, or sauteed. The idea of immersing my perfectly good food into a vat of boiling oil doesn’t get me all that excited. Then I got a couple pounds of green tomatoes in my CSA share. Oy, the only thing I could think
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