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Simple and Quick Go-To Recipes
I’m guessing that many of us are feeling a little burned out on cooking, and there are evenings when we just want an easy menu that will satisfy the family. I’ve felt that way more than once over the past…
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A Treasured Family- and Food-Centered Journal
You can learn a lot about a person by their relationship with food. I think I know a lot about Wilma Joyce “Billie” Simmons, the mother of my friend Tom Stites. I’ve never met her, but I had the privilege…
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Make a Main Dish for Peanuts
I have a long relationship with peanut butter. It began with breakfasts of toast with peanut butter and jelly. Once I was in grade school, the centerpiece in my Roy Rogers lunch box was a PB&J sandwich. As I grew…
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Wait, Don’t Toss that Pickle Juice!
It’s a new year, and a perfect time to up our game in creating tasty dishes for the dinner table. Let’s take another step in thinking about how to add or enhance the flavors of what we are creating on…
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Keeping Holiday Traditions Alive
As we leave 2020 behind, the holiday feasts are memories to savor, and we look hopefully toward the future, have you thought about keeping a diary of your experiences? For most of us, I suspect that this unusual holiday season…
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Getting Lucky in 2021
Feeling better about 2021? Want to hedge your bets? Since we are cooking more these days, let’s look at the cultural food traditions around New Year’s that promise good fortune for the coming year. We all need to eat, so…
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Making Hash Out of Holiday Dinners
We’re getting to the end of the festive holiday meals, and the leftovers are piling up. Now’s the time to think about that old standby: hash. All those potatoes, vegetables, and that large hunk of meat are just asking to…
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Do Something Different with Holiday Treats
What can you do with all of those leftover Christmas goodies? Some will be taking up space in the fridge, others clogging your counter or cupboard space. We don’t want to waste food or end up with a science project.…
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Holy Sheet Pan! No-Fuss Dinner in 30 Minutes
Looking for a way to make your life easier? How about a meal that’s easy, nutritious, and takes less than an hour from start to finish? Look no further than a sheet pan. I suspect that you might already have…
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What to Do When You’re Just Bored with Food
If you feel like you’re in a cooking rut, apparently, you’re not alone. In a recent article in the New Yorker, author Helen Rosner wrote an essay entitled “The Joylessness of Cooking.” And The New York Times’ Sam Sifton, while…
