Another Monday morning links list … and an image from the archives, since I’m still without cameras and am likely to be for the foreseeable future. The image below is from one of my very first Tuesdays With Dorie postings. I still love the way the individual chocolate tart shells turned out.

And here [...]

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As anyone who follows me on Twitter knows, I’ve been slightly obsessed with Gordon Ramsay lately. Thanks to hulu.com I’ve watched 2 seasons of Kitchen Nightmares back to back and I’ve caught up on the last season of Hell’s Kitchen and The F Word.
On a previous season of Kitchen Nightmares, he gave a meatball [...]

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So this isn’t technically a gadget or utensil, but I figure it sort of qualifies as things I use a lot! One of the things I get asked pretty frequently is what I keep in my pantry on a regular basis to make planning easier.
So here’s a list of what I try [...]

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One of the things that comes up frequently when people talk about losing weight or eating healthily is the idea that you have to give up your favorite foods forever. I’ve heard people say “I just don’t know how I’m going to give up hamburgers” or pizza or ice cream or … whatever their [...]

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I’m one of those people who have a love-hate relationship with okra. I love the flavor of it – and being from the South, I grew up eating fried okra in quantity. On the other hand, I’m not so fond of the sliminess that cooked okra has. It’s a texture thing. [...]

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I finished the week thinking that this would be a lean “links” Monday, but as I started looking back through my saved links, I realized I’d tagged a whole bunch of stuff that looked interesting.
I thought I’d also share my two finds from the outlet stores this past weekend. The first is the mixing [...]

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Just in the last month I’ve started buying eggs from a friend of mine. He and his wife started raising chickens back earlier this year. When they started laying, he contacted me, knowing of my interest in fresh, local foods.
So now once a week we meet for lunch and I pick up a [...]

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The photo below is another random one – from a batch of grilled pizza we made last week. Doesn’t it look yummy?

Ok, on with the next installment of my Monday morning links. I’m really enjoying this, to be honest. As I read through food blogs during the week, it’s fun to look [...]

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Today I had to run an errand on the other side of town and missed out on my usual farmer’s market. However, I did stumble across another one down by the river and picked up a few items … and it’s one I’ll be back to as well.
Lots of Japanese eggplant, a [...]

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Happy Monday, everyone! First of all, just to let you know that the image of baby spinach, below, has nothing to do with the rest of this post. It’s just a picture I like and I figure every blog post on a food blog needs to have at least one picture.

I’m going [...]

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