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  Sometimes I just plain screw up! I hate it! I certainly did just the other day while grocery shopping. The clerk behind the seafood counter knows to give me time to look, lots of time. Honestly it just takes a bit of time to read all the labels to determine which fish is wild…

  When friends stop for a glass of wine, kids come to visit, or guests are in my kitchen for dinner I love setting out a small tray of food to nibble on. Call it hors d’oeuvres,  call it antipasto, it is good without being too filling and breaks the ice and gets people chatting…

  It seems every established yard in the Midwest, and just about every other area that has a cool Spring, has a rhubarb patch. Most patches have been inherited when a new owner purchased a property. A few rhubarb patches were intentionally planted and took off quickly to grow to a nearly wild state.  Rhubarb…

  For longer than I care to admit, I have coveted chicken I could eat without worry or guilt. I craved chicken I could trust to be clean, healthy, and just pure chicken.Chicken without hormones or antibiotics, without feed raised under a cloud of herbicides and pesticides seemed out of reach to me. I always…

Looking for a lost/misplaced zester in my utensil drawer I found three vegetable peelers. Why have one when you can have three! Two were pushed and basically buried in the back of my drawer. They had not seen the light of day for quite some time, and definitely had never been in close proximity to…

Asparagus can be found canned, frozen, and fresh.  Asparagus is one of those negative calorie foods. You burn more calories digesting it than it actually provides. Nice! Of course, fresh is best! It seems that in the last few years fresh asparagus can be found in your market nearly year round. I don’t know why,…

The other day some friends and I were discussing comfort food. Several of my friends mentioned thick, creamy soups for their go-to-comfort-food. One thought of roast, mashed potatoes, and gravy. Another friend loves a gooey chocolate torte for her choice of comfort food. Me? Simple, simple, simple. I just love thick egg noodles. I cook…

When it comes to mushrooms most people use button mushrooms in the majority of their recipes. Some try the large, meaty portabella, and some even use the baby bellas, which are most often actually porcini mushrooms. Once in a great while a person may experiment with shiitakes, usually dried and rehydrated. All mushrooms are not…

Did you ever wonder about the difference between flavor and taste? I have quite often, especially when listening to food commercials and cooking shows. The words flavor and taste seem to be used interchangeably, as synonyms for each other. Time to put on the brakes! These two words have very different meanings. They cannot be…

Scallops have always been ‘little morsels of heaven’ for me. I love scallops. Big ones, little ones, it doesn’t matter.  They are just delicious. Scallops are one of the few shellfish that are almost immediately shucked as soon as they are caught. Hopefully ‘caught’ as in wild, and not harvested, as in farmed scallops. Another…