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Category Archives: Food Stuff
Mouth Feel
I first became besotted with mouth feel sitting to the right of my grandmother at Sunday lunches. The main course typically consisted of beef tenderloin cooked to a perfect dusty rose hue accompanied by roasted potatoes whose shiny and auburn … Continue reading
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I Love Livers
My introduction to liver was perfectly pleasant. There was a period in my childhood when liver was a routine dinner entrée. This was when my mother had 6 children under the age of 10 and was assisted by a mother’s … Continue reading
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Impulse Control
My husband might point out that one of my most economical and endearing traits is that I simply don’t shop. Almost all of my clothes come from a trusted online catalog; I have a limited roster of clothes that are … Continue reading
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Podcast: Home Style Chunks
An exploration of human grade dogfood, culminating in a human taste test. Follow Liza Blue on: Share:
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Raspberries Aplenty
For the past month, every couple of days I have been able to go outside and pick myself at least a pint of raspberries from the bushes alongside our porch. Growing up, raspberries, and macadamia nuts, were considered the … Continue reading
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Snappers and Me
For any of you who vacation at a lake, this story may seem familiar, you have probably had some encounter with a snapping turtle. My story begins at the end of a long hike around a mountain in the Upper … Continue reading
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Mac ‘N Cheese
This January we met our children and their significant others in Hawaii for a delayed Christmas vacation, primarily because Hawaii emerged as the midpoint of our scattered lives. Ned and Emily joined us from China, while Frances and Dan traveled … Continue reading
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Cwazy Wabbits
As my husband can attest, I am not an everyday cook, but I do enjoy cooking for a special occasion. But then Nick wonders why I experiment on dinner guests. My answer is that my cooking is a “one … Continue reading
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Brain Food
Sitting in the shelves of everyone of my first cousin’s homes is a copy of the cookbook, “Have Fun with Herbs,” self-published by my grandmother in the late 1950s. So I thought it would a fitting family unity exercise to … Continue reading
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Costco Field Trip
About 2 years ago, Costco caused a major fracas in our suburban community when they announced their intention to locate a store here. There was some effort to dress up the controversy as an environmental issue related to the number of gas pumps that were part of the store. Continue reading
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