Christmas dinner is perhaps the one meal of the year where even the most relaxed cook feels the pressure of perfection – and, although few menus can be more familiar, it’s probably the one we all feel the least confident about. The context, of course, can be stressful – small children high on pilfered tree [...]
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This coming Thursday, in the United States, will be one whole day when most people will stop working. The schools and most businesses will be closed. College kids come home and various relatives travel many miles. Families will gather in one designated place, around one designated family table. It’s a tradition going back hundreds of [...] It all started with a couple of bushels of local golden delicious apples. They were given to my new daughter-in-law, Genevieve. She took about half of them and made sugar-free applesauce in her slow cooker. Genevieve in turn brought me some of that applesauce. It is so good that I wanted to make something memorable [...] I am not bragging. It’s shocking to my midwestern soul. It’s November and I just took this picture a few days ago. Those tomatoes are still blooming and producing here in northern California. You may recall that after reading TomatoLand by Barry Estabrook (my review is HERE), I vowed that I would not eat another [...] Last June I told you about my experience with Amish Friendship Bread. While I enjoyed the results, I wasn’t happy with the process of daily care that the bread required. I also thought people might start hiding when they saw me coming. After that blog post I learned that Darien Gee wrote a book titled [...] |
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