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Two Can Play That Game

It isn’t just Norma who has beautiful tomatoes. I finally do too.

Of course, they still aren’t quite ripe. I can’t believe it will be SEPTEMBER before I’m able to harvest some tomatoes. And these are “Early Girl”. Sheesh. What a crazy year.
In other food news, I was able to cross one more item off my [...]

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Ominvore’s Hundred

Stolen from Miss T :
The list is from Very Good Taste on the 100 foods any self respecting omnivore should try at least once. Like to play along?
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) [...]

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Virgin Orange

I decided to make another one of those delicious Orange-Basil Mojitos yesterday, and took the finished drink downstairs to my husband to let him have a taste (he wasn’t home for the first try). He took a sip, said “That is SO good!”, put it out of my reach, and said “Go away!”. I guess [...]

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Throw an Egg Over It

The title of today’s post refers to a family joke. Whenever we aren’t sure what to do with leftovers, the joke is to “throw an egg over it”. It’s amazing how often that works. Especially with Mexican food.
I was very excited to see that Costco has the Sabra hummus back again. I love this brand! [...]

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The Manhattan

With apologies to The Pioneer Woman, whose recipes always amuse and inspire me.
It seems that these days, everyone is into what I call pseudo-martinis, you know, those strong, fancy (and usually sweet) cocktails that are served in martini glasses and are called some kind of “martini”. I’m not knocking them - I like them, but [...]

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