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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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Meatloaves

January 3, 2009

turkey-spinach meatloaf I recently happened upon an idea among the numerous online recipes for meatloaf which was to add chopped spinach. (I would give the link to that recipe, but I can’t find it now–I think there were more than one, actually.) I’d always added pitted black olives and dried oregano and basil to my [...]

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Tuna with friends

October 11, 2008

  We’re all eating at home more these days. Saves money, of course, but it’s a good thing for other reasons, too. Not only is it easier to make healthier food choices, the ability to share an evening with friends is far less restricted. It’s possible to relax and not worry about holding up some [...]

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Cuzn Don’s Hoe Cakes and Hush Puppies

September 3, 2008
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TOTEM BY MISSISSIPPI ARTIST, JOHNNY KNIGHT Roots A while back there was a post about my Mississippi Cuzn Donna and another post about my Mississippi Cuzn Don‘s Mississippi Greens recipe. There’s other Gulf Coast cousins, too, and in due time we’ll hear more about them including their blue grass and photography, but today, we’re going [...]

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The Land of Missed Sandwiches

July 9, 2008

How many times have we discovered, too late, that we had been in the presence of something which at the time it was available we ignored, dismissed, or just didn’t see but, now, we would love to experience, but cannot because circumstances have changed and that thing is no longer at hand? (This goes for [...]

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Mississippi Greens

May 7, 2008
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the River Strong Background In “Honolulu’s Maunakea Marketplace” we glimpsed a bit of the day-to-day life of real people living in a locale typically only seen superficially by tourists. Closer to home, but no less exotic and wonderful, are places we don’t even see because we’re looking for something “special.” I’m thinking of one such [...]

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