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Fresh Off the Farm

Why is it I didn’t already own this cookbook?  I asked myself this at a book sale last week.  It took me all of about 30 seconds to peruse it and know it was a winner.  Most nights, I bring a book up to bed to read by flashlight so I won’t keep my husband awake.  I […]

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Honoring a Special Daddy for Father’s Day

Father’s Day is this Sunday.  I would like to wish all you wonderful fathers out there a very Happy Father’s Day.  My father died thirty-two years ago in May 1980, a month before Father’s Day.  I can never celebrate the day with him again, but my girls are lucky that they can celebrate with their […]

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Global Vegetarian Cooking

If your idea of vegetarian cooking is like my husband’s, who thinks it means some soy crumbles or mushy tofu, then this revolutionary book will wake up your palate with big bold flavors and amazing ingredients.  Vegetarian cooking has as much diversity as recipes using meats.  It is now so easy to take advantage of all the ingredients offered in most […]

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Jammin’

My Great-Aunt Margery from Iowa was the first person who I observed canning food from her own garden.  She had a beautiful, full garden in her tiny town of Wyoming, and stored her goods in a root cellar; and I mean a real cellar that bordered on being spooky.  There was a squeaky door in the kitchen that led […]

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A Wise Man’s Take on the Humble Popover

While recuperating in bed the last few weeks, and at first flat on my back, I didn’t have much to do but play “Words with Friends” with  my girls and my mom, along with reading books.  One of the books, Issac’s Storm, was one I have been meaning to read for a long time.  Great book.  […]

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Chocolate Pudding for Lisa’s Cups

  When my friend Lisa (a different Lisa from Monday’s blog!) sent me a gift of the darling dessert cups above, I knew exactly what I was going to make.  One of my favorite Weight Watchers cookbooks is Simply the Best All American.  I bought it over ten years ago, and it’s still one I use almost […]

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Lisa’s Herbs

Good friends know what you need and when you need it.  My precious and wise friend Lisa knew all the way from the East Coast that what I needed when I came home from the hospital was a new cookbook and fresh herbs, two of my favorite things in the world.  “Herbs have healing powers, you […]

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A New Beginning

As we all know, life has many ups and downs.  Sometimes bad things happen, and you think you will never wake up from the nightmare.  When I was told I had uterine cancer a month ago, it was like I fell into a black hole with no light in sight.  I felt completely alone, like it was […]

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