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What is your mom moment?

May 9, 2009

Pepper Nuts Last year I was riffling through my cupboards looking for my mom’s pepper nut cookie recipe. You know the ones … you make a month before the holidays and glaze (no one could glaze like my mom) so they look like translucent snow on a very cold moonlit night. Hmmm. Not here. Not [...]

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What was my colorful soup?

April 6, 2009

Colorful Soup After 5 servings of chicken and artichokes and red peppers we still had about 3 cups of chicken breast meat and the chicken skeleton. Once a week I buy celery, carrots (the bunches with the green tops) and onions. Plus, I saved the big stems (uncooked) from the fresh broccoli we had a few [...]

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Who ate the giblets?

April 6, 2009

Before cooking the chicken in the previous recipe (chicken and artichokes and red peppers) I pulled out the paper package of giblets (heart, liver, and gizzard) and the neck of the bird and simmered them (sans paper) in a small sauce pan with water until the liver became crumbly. Oh, maybe about 15-20 minutes. Once [...]

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Chicken with artichokes and red peppers

April 3, 2009

My sister Kate gave me this recipe and I passed it around – a lot. On any given day one of my friends or someone in my family is probably cooking this meal. Why? It is delicious, fragrant, easy and affordable. We just call it chicken with artichokes and red peppers. Three hours before dinner [...]

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Slow cooker fragrant beef

March 8, 2009

After eating odds and ends for ten days because I was cooking for myself and would do about anything not to go to the grocery store I decided to make a real meal to share with my husband. Blue skies, grey clouds, 10 degrees, warm and humid, pouring rain, howling wind and then total calm. Perfect time to cook a meal that said the house [...]

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