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Be prepared to make your own bread and cinnamon rolls. As we all adjusted to fewer grocery trips and more time at home over the past six months, one of the first products to sell out was yeast. It is…
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Good news: there are new and better ways to make them at home. We had a birthday breakfast to celebrate and nothing less than ‘Eggs Benedict’ would suffice. The reason I rarely make them at home is that they are…
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From Bhutan and Japan to Uzbekistan. Are you and your family tired of your recipe repertoire? Looking for a new fun family activity in this era of social distancing? I have a suggestion via a Bhutanese friend who taught us…
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Professor Sharon Lorenzo puts her teaching at the University of Pennsylvania Law School on hold and masters ‘quarantine cooking’. When I married in 1972, I could cook two things – brownies and hamburgers. My husband’s mother was a great cook,…
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Easy meals. At a wonderful lunch two weeks ago, the unexpected main course was shredded rotisserie chicken from the grocery store – and it was delicious! I love a good short-cut, and it looks like rotisserie chicken is a healthy…
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Beyond hot chocolate. Can you tell that I just spent some healthy days at a spa? On the first day, a friend and ASE subscriber Nancy C. confidently asked for a matcha latte with coconut milk. I know a good…
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Time for a fantastic, original, satisfying, (healthy), new recipe. The new year, mid-winter, is the perfect time for wholesome, interesting, (healthy) soup. The word healthy is in parentheses to avoid putting you off the soup – it is only incidentally…
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Festive, Memorable and Sometimes in Flames. One of our holiday traditions began at least four generations ago and my grandchildren look forward to it. We pour brandy over a Plum Pudding and set it alight. We dim the lights and…
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A Hearty Breakfast for Chilly Mornings https://food52.com/recipes/8130-dutch-baby My grandmother made ‘Seattle Dutch Babies’ on cold mornings and they are my grandchildren’s favorites. This recipe has stood the test of time. Sometimes known as German Pancakes, these puffy ‘popover’ pancakes rise…
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