Food

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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Red White and Blueberry

I love summer fruit. As a child, my Aunt Alice had fruit trees: plums, apricots, peaches, nectarines. I learned what real fruit tasted like. I was surprised then when she sold the farm and we had to eat these fruits from a grocery store. They bore little resemblance to the sweet treats I was accustomed

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Caponata

Newly married in 1992, and having moved to a new community, I thought the next thing to do was join Junior League. It made sense since I’d been a girl scout and in a sorority; Junior League was another female organization that had a philanthropic focus to it. The main fund raiser of the group

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Food Art for the Average Kid

Food is a central theme in our home. I spend hours shopping and preparing food that is nutritious and hopefully tasty. My kids have had their hand in food preparation in the various phases of their life. Daughter was very interested in food when she was around 8. She would make dinner, desserts and create

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Bisquits

I will often write the kids’ chores on a white board when I will be away and want them to accomplish certain tasks. I wrote on Son’s side of the board: vacuum stairs prepare chard for dehydrator make bisquits bring in trash cans swiffer kitchen Note: this was a long list because of carry over

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