Dad used to make acorn squash now and again, and it was always like getting dessert for dinner. He slathered it with all kinds of butter, salt, cinammon, and a handful of brown sugar. Everyone got their own half to scoop out with a spoon.
Chris and I found some acorn squash at one of this [...]
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I’ve already admitted to the whole universe, here on this blog, that I’m not the greatest Italian in the world because I don’t ALWAYS make my own sauce (that’s because that world that I live in? It’s the REAL one. Join me, there are babies here… Messy, but worth it!) Anyway, now I’ll tell you [...]
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Chris recently brought a regular sale to my notice through Amazon.com. You can get subscriptions to lots of magazines, many times, for $6-$10 for the whole year (or sometimes two years.) I treated myself recently to a dirt-cheap subscription to Cooking Light. I really like it. I’ve read many foodie periodicals over the years, starting [...]
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Recently, I was at my friend Beata’s baby shower. She and her husband are Polish, and they had lots of Polish friends, who brought quite a bit of Polish food. And when I say, “they brought quite a bit,” I mean in the way that Sitting Bull brought quite a bit of Cheyenne to a [...]
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I have some friends who, since the advent in recent years of competitive cooking shows, have flattered me by saying that I should try out for one of those shows. The truth is, I am really just someone who likes to eat, and experiment at home. I have no clue as to certain types of [...]
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Well, hello there!! I’ve been gone for over a week… But I have a really good excuse. I’ve actually been gone – I went to Portland, Oregon to see some friends for five glorious days. I did a lot of second-hand (and for that matter, first-hand) shopping, and a LOT of eating. I had to [...]
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I am my father’s daughter. Though the cooking I do is typically healthy, one thing I have in common with Dad is that I sometimes get a craving that is undeniable. I don’t mean the type of craving you get where you think, “Hmm, I think stir-fry might be nice for dinner.” I’m talking about [...]
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When I toured the campus at Illinois Wesleyan when I was 18, I fell in love with it. Winter had fallen on the campus, and a beautiful white blanket lay over the “quad.” All was quiet, and I busily began imagining all the brilliant students hard at work learning SCIENCE and LITERATURE with delicious fervor. [...]
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Okay, here it is — the big one. Our dad’s pasta sauce. Which he never would have called it. This is really Dad’s “tomato gravy.” Born to Sicilian parents on Long Island and raised in Queens, the word “pasta” was not really in Dad’s lexicon. All pasta was called “macaroni,” and the sauce was “red [...]
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My favorite places to eat in my hometown, as a kid and as a teenager, included some of the following (in no particular order):
Pee-Wee Golf (for sliders)
Hardee’s (for frozen cookie dough)
Jiffy’s (now Bill’s Diner on Kennedy Drive, a great place itself) where you used to be able to phone in your order from your table [...]
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For a longer explanation, click on the, 'What's This?" page above... But in essence? I take pictures of the stuff I eat. Then I tell you how I made it, or where I bought it. Hope you enjoy!
