Two things I am a huge fan of – cookbooks and the “Great British Bake Off” show on Netflix. One of my favorite participants and also season one winner is Nadiya Hussain (but seriously, I love all the contestants from every season because they are all so talented and inspiring and so incredibly nice to…
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Do you have a “bucket list” – a list of things you want to do, places you want to visit, in your lifetime? I think most of us do even if it is a loose list of ideas kept in our minds, never written down or shared with anyone else. I have several such bucket…
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Welcome to the June Cookbook of the Month post – the first in the series! My first pick for the cookbook feature is a somewhat sentimental one. “Southern Living Busy Moms Weeknight Favorites” was one of my first cookbooks, given to me by a friend. We were both young moms with little ones under our…
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Food evokes memories for me in the same way a song from my teenage years being played on the radio does. A photo of a meal shows up in my Google Photos as I am scrolling through and I am transported to another time. Sometimes it is a specific event but often I’m taken to…
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Ed loves peanut butter so it was no surprise when I asked him what dessert he wanted for Father’s Day, his answer was peanut butter cookies. Specifically, he wanted the ones I made for the first time a couple of months ago when I was “quarantine baking” on the regular. Actually, his request was something…
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