This has been a mainstay of summer eating since I can remember. I grew up in Nebraska where summer meals were pretty standard: Steak, potato salad, corn on the cob. Usually there was strawberry shortcake, ice cream, or cobbler for dessert, but other than those choices the meals were fairly uniform. This recipe was passed…
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Weekend parties on the deck in the backyard are one of the best things about summer. Whenever I’m asked to bring a dish to a summer potluck, I’m thrilled for the excuse to whip up a batch of Texas Caviar, both because it’s always a hit and because I love it myself. This recipe makes…
I work in the financial services industry. Not long ago a client told me a story about an unexpected windfall. A life insurance policy that she and her husband had surrendered for the cash value years before had a benefit that they hadn’t understood at the time. Part of the policy premiums they paid for…
With everybody submitting mouth-watering savoury recipes, I thought I would contribute a traditionally English quick and easy dessert idea. Trifle is a huge favourite here in the UK, and the first known recipe for it appeared in the 1590s, when it consisted of a thick, flavoured cream. Nowadays, it’s more usually made up of a…
This clip has been around a while, but when is this reminder not timely? Watch it ’til the end – gotta love that doctor! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsyE2rCW71o Wendy Clyde
My family loves roasted asparagus, and we eat it often during the summer to compliment grilled steaks and chicken. The recipe is likely familiar, but if you cook it on the grill with your meat you can avoid heating the kitchen. Take a bundle of asparagus stalks and wash them. Then, grasping them at either…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl-coD6ovc0I grew up listening to My Fair Lady. I am not kidding you: When I was a small child, my parents had a lot of classical music on records, a couple of German songwriters, and My Fair Lady and Fiddler on the Roof (both in a German version). I was allowed to handle the record…
Nearly four years ago I posted here about my intention to start using green cleaning products. While it was partially motivated by a desire to help the environment, my major motivation was personal: I have a lot of allergies that cause reactions to many commercially available cleaning products. Well, I started out with good intentions…
Both the houses I grew up in had swimming pools, so when any summer holiday rolled around the party was always at my house (in New Jersey this carried the added benefit of free volunteer labor to remove the pool cover on Memorial Day and put it back on on Labor Day). My mom’s lemon…
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