In anticipation of leaving town tomorrow, I proclaimed tonight’s dinner challenge to be: what can I make from the ingredients in my fridge that the kids are unlikely to eat? In my opinion, I hit it out of the park. In the fridge/pantry/freezer, there were some fresh English peas asking to be shelled and cooked, [...]

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My foodie friend, Christine, just gave me her recent copy of Gastronomica, a hardcore food journal that contains an incredible variety and volume of essays and gastronome-related info. I’d not heard of it before but am happily ensconced in it now and will be happy to help her recycle them anytime. Anyway, I’m reading a [...]

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tomatoes just picked off the plant in your yard, still warm from the sun.

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In a word: yum! This is the Em-i-lis Centraal Sandwich with the addition of roast turkey and the exchange of marinated tomatoes for the sun-dried ones in my original recipe. For Father’s Day, I bought Tom these sumptuous looking Tunisian-style artichoke leaves in olive oil (Williams-Sonoma) as he just loves and cannot get enough of artichokes. [...]

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If it were possible to sue your 5 and 2 year olds, this morning, I would.

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This morning’s breakfast: apricot scones and apricot jam. Yum! The jam is so darn pretty!

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