Feeding a family and getting them to like everything that you like can be a challenge. As many mothers, wives, fathers, husbands and cooks know, that may be the understatement of the year. Pleasing everyone is impossible, yet getting them to eat what’s in front of them might not be. Often, as the family on […]
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So, I am trying to be good. I am trying to eat more seasonal this week, and in the process, I am being bad. When I wrote out my recipe ideas for this week, this particular recipe seemed perfectly healthy. Then I started making it. I think there must be 1/4 cup of butter in
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Breakfast for dinner. Whoever thought of such a wonderful concept has garnered my praise for years. Egss are extremely underrated in my opinion, if only for the fact that people have very limiting ideas of what to do with them. Toad in the Hole, scrambled, fried, sunny side up, boiled soft or hard, etc. There
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While we’re on this soup/stew kick, I’d thought I’d give you a recipe for my take on a classic French dish. Now, though I took French Immersion from kindergarten to high school, my grasp of the French language is somewhat limited. I’m sure I understand more than the average Joe, but left to wander the
When I started this blog, is was merely to be a way for me to motivate myself to get out of a food rut I’d been wallowing in for a year. The moment our son was born, my appreciation and knowledge of fine cuisine, went out the window alongside my pert, youthful breasts and late
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Before I was a lonely home cook, slaving away in the kitchen all evening only to have dinner be rejected by my own spawn for the much preferred scrambled eggs a la Papa, I used to work in some pretty fabulous restaurants. These fabulous restaurants taught me many things, but the thing I value the
Baked Polenta with Morel & Shiitake Mushroom Sauce Read More »
If there is one advantage to living on an island, it has to be the endless supply of seafood harvested off our coastlines. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of pitfalls as well: Wind, rain, having to pay exorbitant fees to leave said island on a ferry, etc. But, being the optimist that I
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Nothing says summer like a nice, big bowl of……hot soup? I know what you’re thinking, but this soup will seriously change your mind. My in laws went on vacation this week and left us to look after their garden. Also, they asked us to clean out their fridge. What should I find but a large
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Something about Sunday mornings just says….warm bread. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s because my Mother would cook breakfast for us only on weekend mornings. It usually involved waffles, fritters or eggs of some kind. I’m not so much into sweet things for breakfast, again that may be because of my Mother. (Do you think
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