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Another week, another refrigerator drawer filled to the brim with garden zucchini. Sound familiar? To take a break from our usual (almost daily in the summer) way to cook up the zucchini (see mom’s summer squash), we prepared a classic French gratin, with grated zucchini, spinach, onions saut
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I love mashed starchy vegetables — mashed potatoes, mashed squash (kalabasa), mashed squash and potatoes… I suppose it was only a matter of time before I tried mashed sweet potatoes. I read that it’s a “classic accompaniment for traditional holiday dishes like roasted turkey and chicken.” And when I finally made mashed sweet potatoes, I [...]
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I feel like a kid at Christmas. My red tomatoes, green chili peppers and yellow summer squash are almost ready to brighten my meals for the next month or so. Here are some easy inventive ways to spice them and prepare them to keep them tasting new and special all through harvest time.
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By Kevin F. Ray

Filet Mignon. Before you can even think of grilling it, you have to wrap your tongue around the pronunciation of the name itself. What is it? Is it some mysterious meat, some strange, endangered animal? How do you grill filet mignon? Does it require hours upon hours of preparation? I’ll try to [...]

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How is it that two people can remember things so differently? If you ask my mother she’ll say she’s only made beef kebabs a couple times in her life. If you ask me, one of my favorite childhood memories is my mother’s kebabs, cooked over the little cast iron hibachi grill my parents had on the back porch. My most vivid memory of them was the time I was recovering from pneumonia, hadn’t eaten anything for 3 weeks, and was allowed for the first time to sip some broth. And sip I did while the rest of the family ate beautiful, smoky, meaty, hearty, beefy kebabs. It. Was. So. Unfair. I can still smell them now. There was nothing I wanted more in the world at that moment than those kebabs. Sigh.

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It’s been quite a while since I last made ice cream. It’s been raining and storming for weeks and ice cream just didn’t seem to go with the weather. But, last weekend, we were able to buy a huge bag of strawberries at a discount and the first thing that came to mind was ice [...]
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When you know how to saute, then you have power over your food choices. It’s quick, easy, and you can saute almost anything! Most cookbooks concentrate on the list of ingredients and forget to tell you HOW to cook.
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:chef: Hi there! I have been having issues with baking cupcakes lately. I am using a new oven so I don’t know if that’s the reason why these cupcakes are turning out to be a fiasco. I’ve tried a recipe with milk and buttermilk but both cupcakes came out VERY dense (consistency not close to a…
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By Kevin F. Ray

Filet Mignon. Before you can even think of grilling it, you have to wrap your tongue around the pronunciation of the name itself. What is it? Is it some mysterious meat, some strange, endangered animal? How do you grill filet mignon? Does it require hours upon hours of preparation? I’ll try to [...]

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