Planning Basics

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• Planning the Holidays

  I have been away from the house for nearly three weeks now.  Getting back to cooking meals for ourselves is going to seem really weird. To top it off, our first full day home is going to be Christmas Eve, so I have to figure out holiday meals just when I don’t remember how my […]

• Pepperplate!

  I am in LOVE with Pepperplate!  Pepperplate is a website with associated app that lets me gather all of the recipes I use from the internet with my own recipes, work my meal plans, develop menus for parties and create a shopping list (including only the items that I needed to actually BUY.  I can deselect […]

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  Hotel Breakfast OR Why I Need Egg Cups

  I’m traveling this week, having escaped the US just before Sandy, the Frankenstorm, shut down every flight out of the country. I’m starting the week in Worms, Germany, southwest of Frankfurt. I speak French very well, but I only know two phrases in German. The first, “where is the key?” because the restroom in the […]

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  Good Things from the Earth: Roasted Root Vegetables

  Short and simple: 1 huge parsnip 4 carrots 3 beets 1 shallot, minced olive oil salt and pepper Preheat oven to 400F. Peel and cut the vegetables. Toss with shallot, olive oil, salt and pepper. Roast until tender, about 45 minutes, depending on size. Beets will be slowest to cook, so manage the cut size […]

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  Clockwork Orange Pekoe

  One of my husband’s original cocktail creations and a personal favorite of mine. 2 oz. (Glenlivet 12 year) Whiskey, Scotch 1 oz. Triple Sec (Cointreau) 1 oz. Vermouth, red 1/2 oz. Bitters, blood orange 2 dashes Bitters, Angostura Combine ingredients in glass.  Stir and add copious quantities of ice.