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Pass the Gravy, Please!
When I asked my friend Tom about his favorite childhood food memory, the reply was swift and certain: bread and gravy. His mother was a master cook, he said, with 200 cookbooks and three linear feet of 4-by-6-inch recipe cards.…
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How Do You Like Them Apples?
It’s apple season – time for apple-picking. Sure, the pandemic has upset the applecart, and there are some restrictions, but you can still get a small group of family together for a trip to the local orchard. You probably can’t…
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Capturing Grandma’s Recipes
My Grandmother Dodge – my mother’s mother – served a taste sensation that I have been trying to recreate. It was a pie unlike anything I’ve seen or tasted since: A flaky one-crust pie with a thin layer of a…
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Add a Little Spice (Blend) to Your Life
In March 1959, when I was in the eighth grade, my family embarked on a monumental road trip from the freezing farmland to Arizona and sunny California via Route 66. That road trip would put National Lampoon’s Vacation movie to…
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Watermelon: No Longer Just an Athletic Event
There was a time when my only questions about watermelon involved which one of my pals had the injector to get the vodka or rum into the big green melon. Or, having achieved this milestone, who could spit the seeds…
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Strawberries for Dinner?
Your kitchen is filled with the intoxicating scent of fresh strawberries. You just couldn’t resist picking up a couple of quarts. But you really need to make dinner. What’s a body to do? Here’s an idea that combines fresh strawberries…
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Deviled Eggs
A picnic staple - superfast with an Instant Pot
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Japanese Cucumber Salad
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Recipe: Tamale Pot Pie
Easy
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Strawberry Pavlova
A deceptively simple, light, elegant summer dessert
