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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 […]

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 […]

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.  […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I am happy to announce that I will be guest blogging for my wonderful mother on The Culinary Cellar today!  My mom has a beautiful way with words and I can only hope that my blog will be half as eloquent as her daily entries.   Although I am sure you have already learned so […]

This is a hard one to write.  I have to leave you all for a little while.  Writing this blog is one of the greatest joys of my life.  Not only is it a way to connect with my scattered family and friends, but I have also made so many new friends from all over the […]