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Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 08, 2026

Yes, chef? Maybe not for much longer

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When I was young, I logged a lot of hours as a waitress. None of those hours were logged in any place fancy: no executive chefs, no sous che...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Dashing to the door...

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When I worked full time, and my husband wast still among the living, we ate out regularly. As in at least 3-5 nights a week. I'd get hom...
Thursday, March 05, 2026

I can think of worse crimes

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Kinston, NC, doesn't get a lot of snow. But in February, they got 15", breaking a record that has stood since 1927.  One thing abou...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

A lobster tale

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I like lobster as much as the next New Englander, but it's not something I eat all that often. Mostly when I have lobster it's in th...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

M'm! M'm! Good!

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Lunchtime when I was a kid usually meant soup and a sandwich. My mother was a scratch cook, and a fabulous soup-maker, but soup at lunch cam...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Betcha can't eat just one

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Seriously, who doesn't like potato chips? There are plenty of food items you can't eat just one of: Oreos, M&Ms, and peanuts, fo...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Short answer: not really

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Well, yesterday, my post was dedicated to pudding. Today, we take on an adjacent foodstuff: Jell-o salad. One of my mother's festive spe...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Proof of the pudding

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I like pudding.  Chocolate. Butterscotch. Vanilla. Rice. Grapenut. Tapioca. And the near relations: mousse, flan, and whatever's in the ...
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Teddie's going bigtime

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I don't remember when I discovered Teddie Peanut Brother. Although Teddie has been around for 100 years now, I didn't grow up with i...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

That's a wrap?

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I don't generally end up with organic food in my grocery cart. Sometimes I get a bit pious and buy Bell & Evans chicken, grass-fed o...
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Bottom of the barrel at Cracker Barrel

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Although I've been to a Cracker Barrel a couple of times, I'll never be a regular.  There aren't many around here The calories I...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Sugaring Off

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We're still a month or so away from sugaring off season, when New England's maple trees are tapped and the sap boiled down to make m...
Thursday, September 05, 2024

I REFUSE to believe this

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It was old news - and most certainly fake news - but I was startled a while back when I saw  this float into my Twitter timeline. You proba...
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Monday, August 26, 2024

Amazing Amazon, cheese powder edition

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A few weeks ago, I decided to make a King Arthur Flour recipe recommended to me by my friend Joyce, an excellent cook. The galette sounded d...