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I’m reposting this recipe from the archive because it’s a great Lenten dish, and if you haven’t yet tried it, I highly recommend it. Also, we celebrated mom’s birthday today and didn’t cook, went out instead. She’s 73! ~Elise
Canned tuna has never tasted this good. I came across this recipe on Sher’s [...]

We had dueling home fries here the other day, a veritable home-fry cook-off between my mother and father. Mom makes her fried potatoes sliced, using raw potatoes, and usually serves them as a side when we have fish for dinner. Dad makes his home fries for breakfast using leftover boiled potatoes from the [...]

Around St. Patrick’s Day I notice many people coming to this site looking for an Irish lamb stew recipe. After some experimentation and a lot of research into Irish stews, I’ve settled on a stew that has its roots in the traditional approach, but takes a few detours to add a bit more flavor. [...]

Green = vegetables = good, right?
Not when it comes to potatoes.
Here’s an important piece of information that my mother taught me years ago, but fewer and fewer people these days seem to know about. Green in potatoes indicates the presence of a rather harmful toxin. When you see patches of green in your [...]

From the recipe archive
Arroz con pollo means “Rice with Chicken” in Spanish. It is a classic dish of Spain and Latin America, with many different traditional ways to prepare it, unique to various countries. An arroz con pollo you find in Cuba may be quite different than one you find in Peru. [...]

Focusing exclusively on calories opens the door for all sorts of interesting processed food products.
One such product is PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter from Bell Plantation.

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Under law - you cannot discriminate against anyone on the basis of color, race, creed, gender, age, and so on and so on…
There is one exception however - body weight.
New research shows that weight discrimination remains socially acceptable in today’s culture.
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My mother made a pasta dish the other night that took everyone by surprise. My skinny-as-a-spatula 10-year old nephew who won’t eat anything, ate his serving with gusto and asked for more. My carb-avoiding sister couldn’t resist it. My father declared it a triumph. Later that night dad had my mom recount [...]

Please welcome guest author pastry chef Shuna Fish Lydon of Eggbeater who shares with us the (almost) lost art of making butterscotch. ~Elise
When was the last time you tasted authentic butterscotch? Flavor, sauce, memory, aroma, era: butterscotch was an all but extinct, or out-of-date substance, and flavor until recently. Now it’s all the rage.
Wouldn’t [...]

Many moons ago Dennis Kercher from The Hidden Kitchen shared with me his favorite grilled cheese sandwich - one with smoked salmon, Gruyere, and lemon confit made from preserved lemons. I finally got around to making this fabulous sandwich, but instead of using preserved lemons (most people don’t have those sitting around), I boiled [...]