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Cinnamon and sugar on anything is delicious. Ever had it sprinkled over a piece of homemade bread toasted slathered in butter. Damn!…

The most wonderful thing about being back in the city is reconnecting with our friends. Grabbing a coffee mid afternoon at one…

Caprese salad is my – can’t resist it – would wrestle a grizzly bear for it – favorite salad.  To me, it’s…

Last summer, Ralph and I returned home from our holiday in Greece to rotten tomatoes. It never occurred to us, when we…

I can spot a good cook at a thousand meters. Good cooks give themselves away without knowing it. Of course you have…

As I was preparing this baked eggplant with yogurt dressing from the newest edition to my happily growing cookbook collection, Plenty by…

Moments of divine inspiration come rarely when the mind is busy. My brain is busting! Menus for a local food festival, Valentine’s…

At the tender age of twelve, sitting alone in a dark movie theatre lost in Franco Zeffirelli’s ‘Romeo and Juliet‘, I was…

This is the perfect holiday pot luck dish. It takes seconds to assemble then gets popped in the oven so you can…

I’ve begun party prep countdown for Christmas on Carmarthen! We live on Carmarthen St., hence the name. I’ve decided on a mixture of fourteen different…