vegetables

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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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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Pears, bananas and cabbage

March 5, 2009

For ten days (while my husband travels) I have been eating lots of pears, peppers, bananas, cabbage, peanut butter and jam sandwiches and everything I could think of made from the food my dad picked up on Marc’s “used shelf” (I believe the term is manager’s specials). What did I make?

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