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Regrouping….again (with a recipe)
My goodness, I’ve been MIA on the food posts for a week!! What in heaven’s name have I been doing? Playing hooky in the summer sunshine? Ah, sadly no…. Picnics in the gentle July breezes? No again…… Oh yeah….. *sigh* Despite it being high summer, where sunshine and warmth and summer vegetables should be in […]
Recovery from eating?
Really? You need to recover from eatng? In my family, for certain, and probably in many of yours too. Families are just like that. When you get together, across generations and siblings and cousins, there is certainly a lot of good eating. Any gathering of Mike’s large clan is always a celebration of food. In […]
Glorious Greens, part 2
So you want to hear something that sounds a little weird to me? I like beets, and not only do I like beets, but I absolutely LOVE beet greens. I think I can officially be called a grown-up now. I think…. Anyway, why is this such a revelation? Due to the fact that just a […]
This girl is a happy chef
Anyone remember this? Ok, so I’m not trying to compare myself with some crazy looking statue….one that’s squatting, for goodness sakes, but yesterday was a day to make me one utterly happy and excited home chef. I got a brand new grill! Our old grill hung around for nearly seven years, but should have been […]
Potato Salad Nostalgia
If you had asked me a week ago if I liked potato salad, I probably would have done some type of combination eye roll with a detestable smirk to show you in no uncertain terms how much I really can’t be bothered with all that cold potato with mayo and god knows what else kind […]
Three years blogging
Today marks the 3rd anniversary of this blog. Am I happy about it? That depends on the day, but usually yes. And sometimes, more often than not these days, I would say no. I admit that I’ve toyed a lot lately – a lot!– with quitting this past time of mine. Part of me feels […]
Smashed Potatoes and Olive Tapenade
From my lips to yours, I never would have thought to put these two flavors together in all the world of combination’s; one so briny, the other so mellow- who would have thought that they’d be any good together? Thankfully someone did, and they had the fortitude to put it in a cookbook for all […]
Cherries!!
I almost thought to do this as a Wordless Wednesday post, but I simply can’t be quiet about fresh cherries and when I get passionate and excited about a food, my hyper-articulate and descriptive nature fully reveals itself and well, I just can’t stop. Either talking about them or eating them. This time of year, […]
Glorious greens and Spinach Pesto
Maybe I was a rabbit in another life. Or maybe it’s just my normal summertime affliction, but greens have dominated my meals as of late. What fuels this obsession, and it can certainly be called one, is the availability of the ‘live’ lettuce heads my grocer has started carrying. I found these last summer and […]
Cake!? What's happening??
Let me tell you about my nephew Matt, or as he likes to refer to himself ‘my second son’. Matt is nine, with light red hair and an adorable grin that’s going through its ‘Jack-O-Lantern’ phase, losing his baby teeth and replacing them with Chiklet chompers. He has a personality that just lights up a […]