Some evenings I don’t necessarily want to cook a full meal; it’s too much time and effort.  I still want to eat healthily, though, and so I turn to my standby meal – the frittata.  A frittata is an Italian variation on an omelet; baked instead of cooked on the stovetop.  Or, other people might [...]

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I don’t know if it’s the blight that everyone has talked about, spreading this far south, or if it’s been the cool weather, or what, but my farmer’s market has had a plethora of green tomatoes lately. And actually that’s fine by me because I love the tangy tartness of a green tomato – fried, [...]

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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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Chili with Beans Recipe

One of my favorite autumn things is chili. In the summer it’s too hot to make or eat chili. Who wants to sit down with a bowl of steaming hot food when it’s 90 degrees out? Not me, that’s for sure. But at the first hint of [...]

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