Fruit Soup! I know. I wouldn’t have believed it myself but this traditional Swedish food received nothing but rave reviews from everyone! Swedes, non-Swedes and most impressively children of all ages who had no idea what it was, tasted a… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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This photo could have been taken just about anytime during the month of December but as it was, it was taken a couple days before Christmas with only two cooking projects remaining before I entered the “I’m so done with being in this kitchen”… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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I now have an experiential understanding of what it is to joyfully anticipate the first-fruits of the harvest and the fatigued “enough already of a good thing” when the harvest keeps on giving and giving. That one little lemon tree just around the… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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Over at Savouring where I blog about the snippets of our daily life there’s been a few posts on our neighborhood lemon tree and my obsessive pursuit of gettin’ me some, and when the first of the harvest arrived I had so many lemons that I was able… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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In the Spring and Summer I grill vegetables and in Autumn and Winter I roast vegetables. Whether roasted or grilled I fix them simple and keep them on the heat until some have turned to crispy bits. While I’m not fond of raw or steamed… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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I originally found this recipe for Nutella Oatmeal Thins over at Baking Bites three months ago and since then have made them four or five times.  They are the very one and the same cookies that led to my great internet fame, or infamy as it… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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All it takes for a dinner of Bucatini Mock Amatriciana is a bowl of onions, crushed tomatoes, salt, peperoncino flakes, bucatini (thick spaghetti), grated pecorino, Lidia’s Italy cookbook and a little time. If there’s anything more beautiful… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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Inspired by last evening’s conversation with Lidia Bastianich and the two new cookbooks autographed “To Anita and D….Enjoy! Lidia” I decided to select a couple of her recipes for this evening’s dinner. I didn’t make it past page 12 in Lidia… Don’t stop now…keep reading!

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