Archives in Category: Dining/Food

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Plain Is Vanishing

Posted on September 16, 2013

Recently I whined about the loss of ice cream in quarts and small animal cracker boxes. Today I’m grinching about the loss of vanilla yogurt and plain hamburgers. Great filet mignon too.

Let’s take it point by point . .

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Please Print the Recipe

Posted on September 2, 2013

The latest Williams-Sonoma catalog came in the mail recently, and I am disappointed.

I’m a committed devotee of W-S, and I especially enjoy looking through its catalog because of the recipes the company includes to show off its various cookware

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A Caloric Education

Posted on August 27, 2013

This morning I was running (actually driving) errands, and I was hungry.  I thought I could make it home to have something nutritious, but my stomach argued otherwise.  So, since McDonald’s was on the way, I stopped in to see

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Yo Bubbs et al

Posted on August 26, 2013

While I’m on the subject of ice cream, let’s explore the downtown St. Joseph, Michigan, cityscape in regard to this issue.  It’s a small downtown, just recently discovered by tourists who overflow the area on summer weekends.

Time was, a

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She Did Her Best

Posted on August 7, 2013

I’m standing at the kitchen counter spreading cream cheese on crackers as a substitute for supper, and my mother’s approach to school lunches rises in my mind. I’m not sure of the connection, other than the cream cheese.  Mother loved

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What I Learned Today

Posted on August 4, 2013

I went to the supermarket earlier today to get ingredients for various recipes I’m making in the coming week.  I’ve made many of them before, but not recently. And what I learned is that in the interim the ingredients for

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Strawberry Time

Posted on June 17, 2013

Where I live in southwestern Michigan it’s time for fruit and veggie stands to crop up, almost as plentiful as weeds but much more appreciated. Already asparagus has come and gone, and now it’s strawberries’ turn.

For the past week

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Tequila Mockingbird

Posted on June 6, 2013

No, that’s not a typo. It’s the title of a little book I just ran across, and it made my day. The tagline under the title reads: “Cocktails with a Literary Twist.”

I can’t improve on the description I found

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Chicken

Posted on May 26, 2013

I’ve been thinking a lot about chicken this Memorial Day Weekend.  I love it. Fried, baked, winged, pied, grilled, sliced, casseroled, stuffed. It’s my go-to comfort food. In the past four days, I’ve eaten it three times.

My chicken holiday

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Panda Express

Posted on April 5, 2013

There was time to kill before my doctor’s appointment and my stomach had long forgotten last night’s popcorn dinner. I’m not a fast food devotee, but for some reason my car drove into Panda Express and dared me to go

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