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It’s the eating-time-of-year again! The best way to do that for the upcoming holiday feasts is to spread out the tasks over days, making foods that benefit from become richer in flavor when their flavors are given some time to meld.
Cranberry chutney is a perfect example with a variety of flavors mellow and become more united with time. In fact, it has become so popular, ordinary cranberry relish is a thing-of-the-past in our household. The chutney was a bit of an intense change the first year, so it was barely touched (other than by me). The second year, everyone was a bit more adventurous. The third year? No one touched the other two classics – orange & cranberry relish and a cranberry cream-cheese salad, instead, inhaling the chutney. The fourth year, everyone declared that turkey sandwiches had to have cranberry chutney, so I made a double batch. This year? I’m not wasting the time on the classics. My youngest child already asked if I was making “that yummy chutney”, so I’d better get to it!
Continued...| Posted on Oct 12, 2011 by Sharon in Recipes and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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| tags: chutney, cranberry, thanksgiving |
…those lost on 9/11….
AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 11
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| Posted on Sep 11, 2010 by Sharon in and | Permalink | Comments(1) |
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I am really angry tonight. Or maybe I’m just deeply grieving. Maybe it is a mixture of both if the pseudo-science of psychology is to be believed. What I do know is that the country I woke up to this morning, is not the same country I will lie down to sleep in tonight.
Continued...| Posted on May 24, 2010 by Sharon in RantsRaves and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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Three of my most cherished possessions – having survived as many decades and cross-country moves – are beautifully illustrated books of poetry given to me by my grandmother. Through them, she passed along her love of well-crafted literature.
| Posted on Apr 21, 2010 by Sharon in LausDeo and Family | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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I got a jump on “Spring Cleaning” this week, culling tools – bakeware, cookware and gadgets – no longer useful in the creation of nutrient-dense, whole-food. Keeping all-things-Corning, glass, and cast iron, I discarded the few remaining non-stick pans, aluminum bakeware, and a crockpot. Most were decades-old, having far more nostalgic, than practical value. The most difficult for me to remove? The now-“vintage” Tupperware.
| Posted on Mar 10, 2010 by Sharon in RealFood and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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Surveying the refrigerator, my eyes landed on a new smoked Spanish cheese I’d been saving for something “special”. Souffle’! Slicing off bites of the cheese, I popped them into my darlings’ mouths. “Oh, that’s very, very good cheese”, my 14-yo said, her eyes squinting as she analyzed its flavor. “There’s a….smoky component…a bit of a bacon-y edge. Let’s go with that.” Excellent! Game on!
| Posted on Feb 10, 2010 by Sharon in Recipes and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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I had special plans for this morning’s biscuits. Yesterday, I’d picked up some freshly-made ground pork from a local farmer, and my goal was to create smooth, velvety, creamy sausage and gravy to pour over the biscuits. I’ve made some pretty extreme, complex 5-star breakfasts over the years, and while old-style southern-style sausage and gravy over biscuits is deceptively simply, it’s one of those recipes that brings together your “Best Of” techniques.
| Posted on Feb 10, 2010 by Sharon in Recipes and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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This 1986 recipe winner of the Pillsbury Bake-Off, has gone through a few changes over the years. Pillsbury once published it, similar to what I’ve included later in this post, but eventually revamped it, replacing the 100% made-from-scratch method with its refrigerated biscuits, loaded with homogenized shortening and chemical-laden synthetic preservative.
| Posted on Feb 08, 2010 by Sharon in Recipes and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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It’s that time of year, yet again, when our poor light-confused parrot is egg-laying. Even though she’s without a mate, she is as protective and attentive to the egg, as if it were fertile.
| Posted on Feb 06, 2010 by Sharon in Creatures and | Permalink | Comments(1) |
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If I’ve seen a movie or television show once, I have no desire to watch it again, with the exception of “Gone with the Wind”. But as for everything else? It’s time to move on to something new! That rolling-stone (as in “gathers no moss”, not Rock ‘n Roll) attitude transfers to how I cook. I don’t think I’ve ever made the same omelet twice, for example. Even when I have similar ingredients, the end-result is a little different.
| Posted on Feb 04, 2010 by Sharon in Recipes and | Permalink | Comments(0) |
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