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Fantabulous Fridays: Chilly day leads to spiced cookies

I hadn’t planned to make cookies today; I’d planned to go out and about, perhaps searching for some costume items or using some gift cards for a rare shopping trip.  But instead, once the cold front breezed in this afternoon, … Continue reading

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The only way to make crab cakes

According to my sweetheart, crab cakes should be almost all crab.  No veggies, no reductions, nothing fancy.  Ideally, the crab meat should be jumbo lump.  All back fin.  No claw meat. He’s from Maryland and doesn’t cotton to crab cakes … Continue reading

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Stillness Sundays – lazy breakfasts

Recently, while digging through a tremendous amount of accumulated paper, I found a bag of recipes I’d cut out over ten years ago.  At the time, I was a little less discriminating about what recipes I would save so I … Continue reading

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Fourth festivities

We had a nice mellow 4th weekend.  Festivities yesterday included a BBQ at the neighbors’ with plenty of kids, dogs, food and laughing. Today I made some dijon potato salad and a fruit galette inspired by a three ingredient recipe … Continue reading

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Post preempted by potluck pool party

And I’m off in a few moments to feed cats and go watch last night’s episode of Treme, leaving little time for this poor blog. Nothing better than sitting in a just-right temperature pool, sipping wine, hanging out with some … Continue reading

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