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FOOD

Organic produce and fresh fish shopping in St. Pete.

March 8, 2010
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Comments are often where the most interesting content is in a blog. I especially enjoy comments which are questions such as a recent one that asked how to find good produce locally. It prompted me to create an answer, which I posted as an answering comment, that summed up my favorite places for local produce. [...]

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Romanesco

March 7, 2010
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Taken 3/6/10, St. Petersburg, FL Saturday Morning Market — don’t forget to click on image and then click again to get to full-screen image.
 
What an amazing vegetable, the romanesco. I’d never seen one before. Next time I’m at the market, I’m going to buy one to bring home to prepare and eat. This time, I [...]

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Perk up your sandwich with kimchi

February 19, 2010
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Anything tastes better rolled in a tortilla or layered into a sandwich. That basic truth is helping me to eat more vegetables. I sometimes even find salads tedious to eat, but when I roll them into a tortilla, I love them ever bit as much as an unhealthy burrito.
 
This post isn’t even a recipe, it’s [...]

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Madeleina Cottage Restaurant

February 11, 2010
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exterior Madeleina Cottage Restaurant
This is a repost of material buried in a much longer, earlier post about something else: Gulfport Trolley Day. I’m extracting this material and reposting it here to give the Madeleina Cottage Restaurant the focus it deserves.
At the end of a long day of exploring various trolley servies in St. Petersburg, a [...]

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Stella’s Deli & Gelato

February 4, 2010
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The Tampa Bay area has a large number of first class restaurants, but not as many New York style delis as I would like. (Admittedly, I’d like one on every block.) There’s Jo-El’s Delicatessen & Marketplace (Jewish), European Goodies (Polish), and Mazzaro’s Market (Italian) plus a number of ethnic markets (Bosnian Bakery, Cafe Mozart, Dong [...]

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Lentils with yogurt and garlic

January 30, 2010
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Just a quickie recipe: make lentils your usual way. For me, that means putting them in medium size crockpot, covering with vegetable (or chicken) broth up to near top of pot, dumping in an entire onion chopped, two (or three!) handfuls of peeled garlic buds, 1 Knorr’s bouillon cube (veg or chicken), 1/4 teaspoon of [...]

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Roman grocery

January 20, 2010
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Rome, Italy
Taken in 1988
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Gulfport Trolley Day

January 17, 2010
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Gulfport Hideaway Apartments
 
A good friend recently bought a home in Gulfport, Florida. Attached to this home, in which she will be resident, are four apartments. She calls her complex the Gulfport Hideaway Apartments.
 
Her target clientele are seasonal visitors from abroad. She wanted to confirm that her visitors would not need a rental car, even to [...]

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Cookie

January 12, 2010
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Alessi’s bakery
Tampa, FL
Taken on July 29, 2008
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Cranberry, chicken, and barley stir fry

January 6, 2010
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just before simmering
Back when I was still teaching and there would be gatherings of students and faculty for a potluck meal, my a-bit-too-substantial tuna casseroles were the butt of a few jokes. Once, some of the students kidnapped my casserole and did a photographic study of it positioned in various locations around Tampa. Wish I [...]

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Friendship

December 31, 2009
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If you were to read almost any post in Inkwatu, you’d soon discover the word, “friend,” somewhere in the text. Very few of the places described in Inkwatu I discovered myself. Friends shared with me the things and places they liked. In turn, I shared them with you.
Family is important, of course, but friends are [...]

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St. Petersburg’s Grand Central Chili Cookoff

December 5, 2009
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Last weekend was the St. Petersburg Grand Central Chili Cookoff. This was the third year I’ve attended this event and it’s one I look forward to. It is amazing how varied and how original some of the chili recipes can be. I honestly don’t know how the judges reach a conclusion. I know it would [...]

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Holidays, Home and Hearth

November 27, 2009
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Holidays are all about home and hearth, which is to say, family and food. Last week, Inkwatu was a post about sharing a morning with my son (the family part of home and hearth) at a dog park in Atlanta. Today’s Inkwatu is a repost of recipe teasers (both family and food) from my sister’s [...]

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