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Continue reading →: Photo Friday
In a few weeks, our lush, semitropical landscape will be almost entirely shades of green, and have an overgrown feel, even when it isn’t. Right now, though, there’s a riot of color everywhere you look. I posted pictures of a royal poinciana two weeks ago, but now they are reaching…
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Continue reading →: Book Life
Do you remember life before the internet? One way to describe life before the internet was that it was more physical, more tactile. You needed to use things, like books and newspapers and periodicals (when was the last time I thought of that term?) to access the information we now…
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Continue reading →: A Classic Combo With a Side of Delicious
I like artichokes. The rest of my family loves artichokes. Any time I make a dish that includes them, someone will ask me to add extra. There have been arguments at dinner about who gets the last artichoke. There used to be a Jason’s Deli franchise in Wellington, and when…
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Continue reading →: The Best of Everything
I enjoy a good bagel with cream cheese. If I’m at Panera Bread, my first choice is their Asiago bagel, but anywhere else, it’s an everything bagel. Recently, Panera has introduced an everything Asiago bagel; talk about the best of both worlds. (Yes, I know. Some of you are going…
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Continue reading →: Simply Shrimp
I love shrimp, and, until about 2 years ago, I cooked them frequently. Shrimp is the only seafood that doesn’t suffer from being frozen. We had a Sprouts Market in Wellington that always had two-pound bags of high quality frozen shrimp at good prices. They weren’t little shrimp, either; they…
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Continue reading →: The Other Side of the Sea
When we talk about Mediterranean cuisine, I think that most of us, at least in the US, are referencing the foods of the European countries that border the Mediterranean: Spain, southern France, Italy, Greece, maybe Türkiye. But there are other countries in Western Asia and North Africa that border the…
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Continue reading →: Photo Friday
The squirrels in our neighborhood often have us laughing at their antics. There were two on the path this morning as we took our walk, chasing each other down the path, up a tree, back down, along the path heading directly at us, then darting to the side and up…
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Continue reading →: This Little Piggy
Have you ever broken a bone? I have never broken one of the “long bones,” as the bones of our arms and legs are known. Twice, however, I’ve broken a toe. The bones may be small, but the pain is not. The first broken occurred sometime in the mid-1990s. We…
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Continue reading →: Tried and True
So many of the recipes I cook these days are Mediterranean, either in origin or influence. But there was a time when I did a lot of Asian cooking, and I pulled out one of those old recipes last night. Stir fries were a go-to on busy nights, when juggling…
