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Little Lucy?s Excellent Cake Pops

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Lovely Lucy belongs to Yoga Jen, our way-cool yoga instructor at Camp GetAway for Mothers & Others.  They were excited to show me their Cake Pops project. These gals are big fans of “Bakerella? and decided for Lucy?s classmates, they[...]

How to Roast a Goose & Why is John Crying?

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Don?t feel sorry for John, that?s not his empty wine glass. John was on the front line, dicing onions as a member of Team Soup at our Traditional Old English Christmas Dinner. And he certainly wasn?t crying the remainder of this Gourmet Club cooking[...]

Chocolate Kahlua Truffles

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This is my adaptation of a candy recipe in Cooking Light, which was truffles made with bourbon. If a sweet recipe calls for bourbon, I already think it will be better with Kahlua. Chocolate Kahlua Truffles were my final product. I wanted a ?tiny?[...]

Mom?s Scalloped Potatoes & Her Thing About Butter

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Let?s see if I paid attention to how my mom, Gloria, made her scalloped potatoes. She was always peeling potatoes; there were seven of us. And she had no recipe box if I remember, just a mental arsenal of foods we would consume without debate. There[...]

Iced Cranberry Pecan Drop Cookies

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Forgive me, Nestle. You often get my money for chocolate chips to make Toll House cookies, but this time I strayed. There was a packet of dried sweet cranberries in my pantry from a food conference goodie bag.  The cranberry package said ?made for[...]

Crockpot Beef, Mushroom, Barley & Rosemary Soup

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It isn?t often that I cook with beef. I?m CHEAP, remember? But Omaha Steaks was having a sale and that?s my (frugal) chance to fill the freezer with steaks and burgers. Somehow I added Tri Tips to that order, apparently part of a package. Hmmm,[...]

Dining In The Dark

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You have not seen a restaurant review on this blog. I?m easy: I like to eat in restaurants, never send food back, always clean my plate. This review is about an experience, not the menu; our dinner at the restaurant Opaque wasn?t anything I[...]

Last Minute Food Substitutions

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This week is Thanksgiving. And what should arrive on my doorstep from uber-culinary publicist Lisa Ekus?  The gigantic Food Substitutions Bible by David Joachim. It conjured memories of past Thanksgivings with friends and family ? for which I am[...]

The Original Classic Kahlua Pecan Pie

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Heavenly Kahlua Pecan Pie and I go way back. In the late ?80s, my little PR agency represented Kahlua as a client. Before spirits were OK to advertise on TV, and before stupid corporate changes decimated the brand (ouch, I?m still bitter), Kahlua was[...]

What Meryl Streep Served Steve Martin in ?It?s Complicated? ~ Croque Monsieur

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Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin. All eating, all the time. The movie ?It?s Complicated? is now Tivo-able. It?s the kind of chick flick I love because, besides hilarious middle-age angst, there?s a lot of great looking real food.  Did you[...]