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Recipe–Roasted Poblano Pepper, Sweet Corn, and Potato Soup

When summer produce begins showing up in our gardens and local markets, we have endless possibilities of dishes to serve our families. We can mix and match those veggies for tasty, fresh, crisp...

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Family Cookbook and Hydroponic Update

We tell our stories around the table, and in our family, that table includes food. Lots of food. We pull everything we have out of the refrigerator and cabinets for our guests. One of the many...

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Holiday Bake-Off

I hosted my little family Christmas last weekend, and the day went by too quickly. I love having my children, children-in-law, and grandchildren together. When they leave, the house is suddenly too...

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Storytelling and Baccala

bacalhau (salgado) (Portuguese)bacalao salado (Spanish)bacallau salgado (Galician)μπακαλιάρος, bakaliáros (Greek)Klippfisch (German)morue salée (French)baccalà (Italian)bakalar (Croatian)bakaljaw...

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Sausage and Pepper One Pot Dinner

Are you in a hurry tonight? Here’s a quick, one-pot meal. I’ve made this recipe for 50 years, and it never fails to satisfy. Sausage, Potato, and Onion Dinner is hearty, tasty, and very easy to...

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Sacred Lotus

Tall, elegant, enduring, and even nutritious, the intriquing lotus has been revered since antiquity. The delicate lotus flower can emerge from the murkiest waters and purify its environment, is...

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The Taste of Shape

Which do you prefer—gummy bears or gummy worms? Spaghetti or mostaccioli? Sliced bread or a roll? Food is one of the pleasures of life. Most of us look forward to times of day and seasons that feature...

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Turkey Truths

The popularity of turkeys in North America came about in an interesting way. Turkeys are thought to have been domesticated more than 2,000 years ago in Pre-Columbian Mexico. In fact, turkey fossils...

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Honey, I Love You!

Nature feeds our bodies and our spirits. It provides us with beauty, interest, creativity, food, and medicine. So, when we look for solutions, why not look to nature first? Such natural generosity is...

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Summer-Fresh Herbs

One of the prime factors in cooking the tastiest dishes is to use fresh, quality ingredients–fresh herbs being particularly important in most recipes. Purchasing herbs in your local grocery store...

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Dip It

Creamy onion dip and crunchy, salty potato chips. Back in the 70s, this appetizer was a party standard. Packages of Lipton powdered soup and sour cream were always on hand to whip up this yummy chip...

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Thanksgiving Mussels

The aroma of turkey roasting in the oven along with stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie lures us to the kitchen every Thanksgiving. However, this...

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Exploding Squash

It was a quick dinner—spaghetti squash with oil, garlic, parmesan cheese, salt, and pepper. And I wanted to make it quicker by baking the squash in the microwave. After washing and pricking the small...

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Jalapeno Popper Pizza

Spicy, salty, smoky, creamy, and chewy. If you like jalapeno poppers, those yummy jalapenos stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon, I have a twist that you might enjoy at least as much....

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Singing the Holiday Blues

I thought it would be easier this year. Yes, my husband, Marshall, only passed away less than nine months ago, but this was my fifth year without him at Thanksgiving dinner, and I am at peace knowing...

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Sweet Twisted History

With the progression of the seasons comes the move from everything pumpkin to everything peppermint. But if the iconic Christmas peppermint candy canes aren’t your thing, you can appease your sweet...

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Hot and Smokey

Cinnamon, cumin, sumac, and cardamom. One of my attractions to different cultures is their cuisine. Tai, Hispanic, Indian, Chinese, or Italian. I love them all! I thrive on the spices of ethnic foods...

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Taste That Shape

Food is one of the pleasures of life. Most of us look forward to times of day and seasons that present our favorite dishes. But why we like those foods is complicated. All of our senses—sight, smell,...

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Quick Crisp

Family cooks have brought about many of our favorite and comfort foods as the result of limited ingredients on hand, rethinking the use of ingredients, and errors in baking. You may know that the...

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Stop! Reflect! Give Thanks!

I’m not one to long for the past. My life’s been a mix of extremes—excellent and dreadful times. I look back on the good ones with gratitude and prefer not to relive those that were difficult....

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