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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…
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Gifts of Love that Keep on Giving
If we want a festive holiday season this year, we’ll have to be even more creative than usual. When I think festive, I think food. What came to mind for me was the result of a simple human interaction. This…
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You Don’t Know Beans
Growing up, I never would have expected to sing the praises of beans. But, of late, I’ve come to admire the lowly pods of protein and carbohydrates first domesticated in South America 10,000 years ago. Compare them with a hamburger.…
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Talking Turkey About Thanksgiving 2020
O.K. I get it. We can’t have the usual Thanksgiving get-togethers, and it’s the right thing to do. Everyone I know is recalibrating even from where we were two weeks ago. On the other hand, we count our blessings through…
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Stewing About the Cold Weather
This time of year, most of us start thinking about a stew. It’s cold and rainy outside, we can’t go anywhere, and we’re yearning for a simple, satisfying meal. A good stew has that satisfying warmth that fits the bill.…
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Finding Community in a Cookbook
On a visit back to my childhood home a few years ago, I stopped by Headon’s Fine Meats to say hello to Lyle Headon, a grade-school classmate, whose shop in Creston, Illinois is known throughout the region as having the…
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Bounty from Sea to Shining Sea
Are you a pescatarian? That’s a person who adds fish and seafood and sometimes eggs to a vegetarian diet. As for me, my background put me on a trajectory of meat and potatoes. But that’s because the 1950s logistical supply…
