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Holiday Prep Continues
The Satsumas have arrived!
For a month or two each year, Satsumas come into our lives to provide us with an alternative to oranges and grapefruit. Cousin to the Cleme...
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December is here: Start Your Holiday Engines!
It's officially December and that means the countdown of days until Christmas and Hanukkah has begun. So, now my holiday canning, baking, and gift-making gets serious. For tho...
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NFL + NBA + Holiday Prep = Foodie Heaven!
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and the pro basketball season is back on, there are at least three days per week devoted to watching professional sports games on TV (four i...
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Countdown to Turkey Day
Countdown to Turkey Day
When you’re the primary cook in your kitchen, you know there’s lots of prep work leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday. First, there’s the “get...
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Umami - The 5th Taste!
Umami: The 5th Taste
Just like the names of the 3 Stooges, even non-foodies can rattle off the 4 tastes without much brain power -- sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. But ...
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More of Epicure in Venice
Venice, Day 7: Lessons from a Professional Chef
Three of us spent the day in the kitchen of professional chef Marika Seguso, absorbing her best tips for cooking the lo...
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More Delicious Memories of Venice
Venice, Day 3: Shopping Day at Rialto Market
Everyone who was able to be ready and downstairs by 8:00am made the long-awaited trek to the world-famous Rialto Market. De...
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Venice, Sweet Venice: A Trip To Remember
Well, my Venice trip ranks among the top 3 trips I've ever taken. Over the next few blogs, I'll recap my Venetian adventure in words, recipes and photos.
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School & Hungry Kids = Brown Bag Lunches
It's that time again: the daily task of making lunches for your school-age children. Here are a few universal tips for planning, preparing and packing healthy lunches:
1. P...
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A presto, Venice!
A presto, Venice! In my elementary Italian, that means "See you soon, Venice!" I’m getting veerrryy excited about my trip to Venice more and more each day now. Six couples in ...
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Summertime and The Livin’ is Easy
Okay, maybe the living is not so easy these days. But unless you’re the president or a member of Congress, there’s not much you can do about the economy or our troops abroad...
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Stone Fruits Are Still Rockin' the Summer
Summer continues to deliver an abundance of fresh produce -- tender zucchini, juicy tomatoes, sweet corn, deep purple eggplants – and, especially now, luscious plums, peaches ...
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Barbeques Not Just For Meats
BBQ.1
Looking for a healthy alternative to bottled BBQ sauce? Shhh…here’s a great reduced-calorie BBQ sauce…
In a medium saucepan, combine a 14.5 oz. can of no-salt-ad...
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Stone Fruit Gets the Summer Spotlight!
As sun-kissed berries yield to stone fruit in the annual summer harvest, peaches are coming in as sweet as pie. Summer time reminds me of plump peaches picked from a tree, rub...
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Let Us Eat Lettuce...and Bananas
Gardening.4
OMG…the salad greens in my garden are producing “off the hook.” Even though we’re a household of 2, we weren’t eating the romaine leaves fast enough. Then, ...
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Father's Day, Gardening, etc.
Our Father’s Day Backyard Brunch was absolutely fantastic! The ladies made French Toast Casserole and Crab Hash, with ice-cold Mojitos to sip on. Sitting outside was a ...
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==B Dude Food for Father’s Day:==
Unless the fathers in your life have a standing, unyielding menu for Father’s Day, it’s always a challenge to live up to whatever you cooked the guys the year before. The doub...
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Culinary Meanderings
Despite this crazy weather, I love this time of year. The spring/summer harvest of fruits and vegetables, local food from farmers markets, growing my own food, fresh salads an...
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A Focus on Fish
I've been trying to eat more fish these days, trying to cultivate the same culinary and eating desires for fish as I have for meat and poultry. Even prior to my vegetarian yea...
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A Toast to my Newest Grandchild
What a memorable 63rd birthday! Following a long family drive on the Tappan Zee Parkway -- with an infant babbling and two boys arguing over seat positions -- we dined at ==...
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Easter Week brings Family Celebrations!
Easter Week 2011 is turning out to be awesome. I'm spending the week in Tarrytown, New York, visiting with my son and his family.
After a bumpy red-eye flight, we arrived ...
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Epicure: April 12, 2011
This is difficult to admit in writing -- my oldest child turned 40 a few days ago. He said he was in a funk about it. I told him I was the one who should be in a funk – having...
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