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Umami - The 5th Taste!
Umami: The 5th Taste
Just like the names of the 3 Stooges, even non-foodies can rattle off the 4 tastes without much brain power -- sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. But ...
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More of Epicure in Venice
Venice, Day 5: A Return to San Marco Square
San Marco Square is a wonderfully energetic and dynamic center of Venetian tourism. To get to the historic square, you must...
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More Delicious Memories of Venice
Venice, Day 3: Shopping Day at Rialto Market
Everyone who was able to be ready and downstairs by 8:00am made the long-awaited trek to the world-famous Rialto Market. De...
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Venice, Sweet Venice: A Trip To Remember
Well, my Venice trip ranks among the top 3 trips I've ever taken. Over the next few blogs, I'll recap my Venetian adventure in words, recipes and photos.
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School & Hungry Kids = Brown Bag Lunches
It's that time again: the daily task of making lunches for your school-age children. Here are a few universal tips for planning, preparing and packing healthy lunches:
1. P...
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Fast and fun kid-friendly foods
Oven-Fried Chicken Fingers (serves 12 kids)
2 1/2lb skinless boneless chicken breast halves
1-1/2 sticks unsalted butter, melted
3/4 tsp salt1/4 tsp black peppe...
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A presto, Venice!
A presto, Venice! In my elementary Italian, that means "See you soon, Venice!" I�m getting veerrryy excited about my trip to Venice more and more each day now. Six couples in ...
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Summertime and The Livin' is Easy
Okay, maybe the living is not so easy these days. But unless you're the president or a member of Congress, there's not much you can do about the economy or our troops abroad. ...
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Stone Fruits Are Still Rockin'
Summer continues to deliver an abundance of fresh produce -- tender zucchini, juicy tomatoes, sweet corn, deep purple eggplants � and, especially now, luscious plums, peaches ...
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Barbeques Not Just For Meats
BBQ.1
Looking for a healthy alternative to bottled BBQ sauce? Shhh�here�s a great reduced-calorie BBQ sauce�
In a medium saucepan, combine a 14.5 oz. can of no-salt-ad...
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Stone Fruit Gets the Summer Spotlight!
As sun-kissed berries yield to stone fruit in the annual summer harvest, peaches are coming in as sweet as pie. Summer time reminds me of plump peaches picked from a tree, rub...
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Let Us Eat Lettuce...and Bananas
Gardening.4
OMG�the salad greens in my garden are producing �off the hook.� Even though we�re a household of 2, we weren�t eating the romaine leaves fast enough. Then, ...
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Father's Day, Gardening, etc.
Our Father�s Day Backyard Brunch was absolutely fantastic! The ladies made French Toast Casserole and Crab Hash, with ice-cold Mojitos to sip on. Sitting outside was a ...
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Dude Food for Father's Day
Unless the fathers in your life have a standing, unyielding menu for Father's Day, it's always a challenge to live up to whatever you cooked the guys the year before. The doub...
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Culinary Meanderings
Despite this crazy weather, I love this time of year. The spring/summer harvest of fruits and vegetables, local food from farmers markets, growing my own food, fresh salads an...
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A Focus on Fish
I've been trying to eat more fish these days, trying to cultivate the same culinary and eating desires for fish as I have for meat and poultry. Even prior to my vegetarian yea...
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A Toast to my Newest Grandchild
What a memorable 63rd birthday! Following a long family drive on the Tappan Zee Parkway -- with an infant babbling and two boys arguing over seat positions -- we dined at ==B ...
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Easter Week brings Family Celebrations!
Easter Week 2011 is turning out to be awesome. I'm spending the week in Tarrytown, New York, visiting with my son and his family.
After a bumpy red-eye flight, we arrived ...
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A Month of Birthday Lunches!
Well, it looks like the secret is out. The Daily Meal named Danville one of nine "small food towns." According to Danville Weekly�s online editor, Jessica Lipsky, �The Daily M...
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It�s Fall: Bring on the Soups!
Aaah, autumn�s calming blend of cool and warm days sets my heart to craving soup. There�s nothing like a hot bowl of soup to steam up a kitchen and create a loving sauna for t...
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Discover Squash Blossoms!
Until recently, I had only heard of squash blossoms but I had never eaten them. In August, I tasted a mouth-watering dish of them as a first course at a local vineyard�s resta...
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School Lunches�Again!
They�re baaaccckkk! School is in and it�s time to make those daily school lunches again. Tired of packing your child's lunch only to discover it barely touched when you empty ...
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