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Not long ago, someone asked me how I learned to cook. Hmmm…that’s a tough question! My first dip into cooking was when I was a Girl Scout, and my mom was the Cooking Badge mom. I’m guessing I was probably in fourth or fifth grade. What I do know is that if there was a badge involved, I was IN!…
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The year I turned 54, I decided I was going to set a pretty big goal…to read 54 books! I don’t know what possessed me to do that, other than wanting to give purpose to the year. I’m already a huge book nerd, and always have two or three books going at a time. I knew someone who was in…
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Long before I was a twinkle in my father’s eye, he was a butcher. I’m talking before he went off to World War II in 1941! It was a job that he’d planned to use for college money. Then World War II broke out and changed his path. Learning Meat Cuts Growing up, on the rare occasion that he went…
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Truth be told, I’m not a big lover of chicken. It’s just one of those proteins that, on its own, can be boring filler. And, it irritates me that it can go from good to gag-fest dry in a heartbeat if you’re not careful. So when I make chicken, I always make sure it’s a dish that’s going to be…
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I just love cooking with seasoning blends. First, and most obvious, it’s so simple to just dump a tablespoon or two into whatever you’re making. No hauling out a ton of herb or spice jars and measuring each and every one out. What a pain in the patoot! I used to buy spice blends at the grocery, or from various…
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There’s nothing I love better than spending a Sunday afternoon cooking and pre-making meals for the week…really, I LOVE it! It saves so much time during the week, and I know I’ll have healthy meals to grab on my way out the door to work. Or, if I have a late day I know there’s a tasty dinner waiting for…
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