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Summer Celebrations
I found a way to celebrate the end of summer. And it is a simple recipe…it is the end of summer after all! So take one fabulous summer, add in a dash of a promising fall and what do you get?? The first thing I got was having to go back to teaching. Wah, wah [...]
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I don’t know about you but as the weather turns cooler I want comfort. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but NOW. The berry crops are dwindling, people are ordering cords upon cords of wood for the long winter months ahead and then, there is me. I do a celebratory happy dance when I pluck a ripened [...]
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TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND ANCE there upon the shore; What need have you to care For wind or water’s roar? W.B. Yeats Sometimes I have a knack for making things a bit difficult. I feel like a mixed up, complicated mess. William Butler Yeats really did have a way with words here…I [...]
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A simple recipe for you today. Kitchen ideas have been running round and round in my head lately. One day grilled plums entered my mind. I wanted a simple, quick and fuss free dessert. The wheels started turning in my head…
Read the rest of this entry »The View from Here
Some days the thoughts in my head do not match up with the words on the screen. The letters are slightly out of focus and misaligned. Today is that day. If this were my camera I would simply switch it to the auto setting. If this were a recipe perhaps it would need a little [...]
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Yotam Ottolenghi has a fabulous cookbook, “Plenty”. Have you seen it? It is chock full of wonderful vegetarian recipes! Sweet Z and I wanted to test out the “Stuffed Portabello Mushroom with Tallegio Cheese” recipe. What a smart move! Wait, does this mean since it was his idea he gets all the props?! Hmmm….
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Some days it seems as though the right thing to do is eat a few velvety soft chocolate chip cookies. You know the type with the super soft texture, the perfect amount of chocolate chips per cookie and a slight after taste of something you can’t quite remember. Well…I have you covered! How about [...]
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