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Category Archives: Family

Please don’t judge me for what I am about to reveal; I listen to the Broadway station on satellite radio.  Not all the time, I listen to way cooler stuff too, but when I am driving I love to sing along at the top of my lungs to the stylings of everyone from Ethel Merman […]

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People freak out when it snows, or more specifically when it’s going to snow!  During my many years working at Whole Foods Market I spent hours bagging groceries for people behaving as if the forecast snow was going to keep them shut in for days, if not weeks. Of course you will need eggs, bread […]

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     Meyer Lemons are in season, and I finally made that Meyer lemon curd I’ve been wanting to make.  I don’t normally do this, but the recipe I include is directly from Marisa McClellan’s Food in Jars, and I didn’t adapt it at all; it is perfect!  I have so many lemons that I […]

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There is no clear answer as to exactly where empanadas originate, some say Spain, some Argentina, but who doesn’t love them?  They come in all different sizes, and varieties, and they work as well as an appetizer for a party, or a neat, hand held dinner pie. They’re generally filled with some kind of meat […]

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I had more than the requisite number of grandmothers; ours was a Modern Family way before it was fashionable… Many of my childhood memories of them include memories of food, both good and bad.  Though they were all technically Jewish grandmothers, my assortment of grandmothers really ran the gamut.  There was my maternal, cold, austere, well bred […]

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