Category Archives: eating well Now that January is here, almost everyone we know is starting their annual diet. I cannot even count the number of diets I’ve started, some a complete and total failure almost immediately, some more manageable. Even thin people seem to think, worry and even obsess about their weight. And so for many people new year= […]  There are many traditions and foods considered lucky for the last supper of the year, including hoppin’ John, pork and sauerkraut, salt cod, and greens to name just a few. Many people will head out for a night of revelry and drunkenness, but we will stay home. My daughter and I always spend New Year’s […]  The winter solstice is the day with the shortest daylight hours. It doesn’t feel like it, but starting today the days will be getting longer for the next six months until the summer solstice. As far back as I can recall I’ve been interested in the four days of the year that mark the change […]  For me pottery and cooking are similar disciplines. I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before but for years I was a potter. I worked in a studio and spent hours a day sitting at a potters’ wheel making round things, and then changing them. I loved working on the wheel, I gave it up reluctantly. I […]  If you call could a potato hot, this dish would definitely qualify as a hot potato! Decadent, cheesy, and if such a thing is possible for a potato in your world, sexy. I have seen this recently on the Best Thing I Ever Made, and then again somewhere else, and I decided I needed to try that […] |
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