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Continue reading →: A Quiet Week?
It isn’t that I haven’t been cooking this week; it’s just been an issue of what I’ve cooked. I made one of our favorites, shrimp vodka pasta, but I posted that recipe a few months ago. Then we unexpectedly had our grandson, Luke, with us on Wednesday. Alice had either…
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Continue reading →: A Walk in the Garden
I know I haven’t written any food posts since Sunday, and I promise that there will be one about tonight’s dinner. I also know that I’ve written before about Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm Beach, where I volunteer. I led a tour this morning, so I arrived early to…
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Continue reading →: Mama Bear Mode
Which animal would you compare yourself to and why? Ever since Ken and I came out of a particularly contentious meeting with our son’s fourth grade teacher and he turned and said to me, “mama bear made her appearance in there,” I’ve figured that a bear is my spirit animal.…
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Continue reading →: Cuban Comfort Food
One of the best things about moving to South Florida was being introduced to Cuban cuisine. Our original Florida home was Homestead, south of Miami, and we were only here a few weeks when one of Ken’s colleagues took us to a restaurant on Calle Ocho in Miami. Calle Ocho…
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Continue reading →: Making Pierogi and More
I promised, when I mentioned in a previous post that we were having a pierogi party, that I would write an entry about the party, so here it is. The good news: everyone had a great time. The bad news: there are no leftover pierogi. Ken and I have made…
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Continue reading →: Food, Glorious Food
Where would you go on a shopping spree? If I could go on a shopping spree, ideally it would be some place with plenty of food. So a public market or food hall would be my idea of shopping heaven. We have been to the Pike Place Market in Seattle,…
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Continue reading →: Friday Night on Thursday
Friday nights have meant “nice dinner” for Ken and me since we were first married. It would be date night, the evening we were most likely to go out. Even in grad school, when we didn’t have much money, it was still a special time. Ken’s department had what they…
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Continue reading →: Happy Accidents
I’m always learning, including about foods and cooking. But sometimes, a lack of knowledge ends up helping create something new. This evening‘s dinner was one of those dishes that I created by accident years ago and that is still a family favorite. It was probably in the late 1980s that…
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Continue reading →: On a Cooking “High”
As a musician, there have been special moments when a performance ends on a high. Something about how you and your fellow musicians gelled, a particular connection with or reaction from the audience, a difficult piece that had given you fits in rehearsal suddenly feels—and sounds—effortless. There’s a moment, as…
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Continue reading →: Pick a Pepper
I’m old enough to remember when microwave ovens became a thing. Microwaves were the new kitchen appliance, and there were lots of recipes for cooking in the microwave. For years I had a subscription to Bon Appetit, and I remember the monthly microwave recipe column. Today, of course, microwave ovens…
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