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Panzanella, an Italian bread salad, is one of my favorite go-to recipes in the summertime, and it made its first seasonal appearance last week. Using tomatoes that I bought from the farmer’s market and basil fresh from our garden, I love eating something that incorporates just-picked ingredients, especially when they’re ours! Some years I have better […]
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Nothing says summer more than a glass of fresh squeezed lemonade. Well, maybe Jersey tomatoes. Oh and blueberries. But you get my drift. As much as I love fresh squeezed lemonade, I have managed to go nearly 38 years without ever having made it myself at home. I kind of stuck with Country Time Lemonade. […]
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I don’t drink wine. I do, however, use it to cook with often and when making cocktails, like one of our favorite summertime drinks, Mom Juice. When I saw Rachael Ray make a Red Wine Rice on 30 Minute Meals the other day, I knew it would be a perfect use for some wine we’ve been accumulating, […]
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ARF/5-A-Day
I was attempting to get the short and sweet ARF/5-A-Day roundup up late last night, but the laptop was achingly slow and I just didn’t have the wherewithal to head downstairs to the office computer. So here we are with an early morning edition instead.
The Chocolate Lady is back this week, this time with New Moon […]
A quiet voice came from the backseat, “Mama, what did God make first, action figures or toys?” Nicholas asked.
“Neither, honey,” I answered. “God made people and people make action figures and toys.”
“Oh,” he said, and you could practically hear the wheels turning.
‘Twas an incredibly busy weekend with Nicholas having three, THREE, birthday parties this weekend. […]
