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Category Archives: eating well

Thanksgiving dinner is probably the biggest meal you will cook all year, and it’s no time to get sloppy with food safety. Whether it’s more food than your fridge can hold, or what to do with your leftovers, you need to have a plan. Planning will not only reduce your stress, it will make it easier […]

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I was raised in a home filled with anger. My parents, both difficult people and each on their second marriage (and dealing with a very non-Brady blended family) had what I would characterize as a stormy relationship. My siblings and I were often pulled into their private dramas, or used as pawns by one to […]

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I am one of those annoying people who feels like there should be no smoking anywhere but your house. Yet, when I was in my early twenties I tried to take up smoking. My logic was that if everyone I knew who tried to quit lost ten pounds,  by starting I would lose ten pounds. This was back […]

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Turkey tetrazzini is one of my favorite childhood foods, but could I build a better tetrazzini, a meatless one? Mushrooms are often the default meat substitute because of their meaty texture and flavor, but this already has mushrooms in the sauce so I set off for the Sunday Headhouse  farmers’ market in search of inspiration, and […]

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I was going to write about cookies today, but the news last night from Paris makes cookies seem beyond trivial, and writing about them makes me feel blind and deaf to the world around me. I sit in my quiet Philadelphia kitchen and feel worlds away from the horror taking place all over the planet, not […]

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