I have taught English for over twenty years and the reading, planning, grading, and yes, the ...
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For the fruit
10-12 crisp apples such as Granny Smith
juice of 1 lemon
2 tablespoons sugar
1 ...
8 large carrots (preferably farmers' market fresh), washed, peeled, ends trimmed off
1 scallion ...
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 small yellow onion, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 red ...
2 lbs. fresh sweet potatoes quartered
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
6 tablespoons butter, ...
12-inch Pie pastry
1 or 2 pounds of Round steak
1 tablespoon of Flour
1 tablespoon of Brown ...
¼ cup POM Wonderful Pomegranate Juice
2 tbs orange juice concentrate
1 tbs balsamic vinegar
½ cup ...
With a sensibility learned from fairy tales, one would ...
Only a few weeks into spring and I can't stop steeping grassy greens. The bright, vegetal flavors ...
Whenever I find myself in a new town, I always look up a Triple-D (Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives) ...
The good thing about having a sister who owns a restaurant – and The River Café is a great one in ...
Full confession: When I was about 4 or 5 years old I was so utterly terrified of Halloween that I ...
It's hard to tell but these cupcakes are the color chartreuse, made to match the walls of the ...
It is, perhaps, telling that my two favorite holidays are a) non-religious and b) associated with ...
Checks and balances. Have you ever thought about how amazing those two words are? In the ...
Olympia is a charming little city in the Pacific Northwest, set down on rolling hills surrounded ...
Last week, on Martha’s Vineyard, while eating lobster on the docks of Menemsha, my 20 year old ...