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Jun 15, 2019

Recipe for Summer Punch: Champagne, Fruit, and Fun Ice

An adult drink with champagne that only looks fruity sweet (it isn’t). It’s summer and that means outdoor or indoor fun with friends and family and usually in a group.  I always recommend greeting your guests with an adult beverage...

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Jun 08, 2019

Kitchen tip: How to use raw asparagus.

It’s Summer and that means Asparagus in all its glory! Who knew? Some of my most favorite fruits and vegetables are in season right now – beans of all types, eggplant, tomatoes, carrots, stone fruit, berries, grapes, pears – the...

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Jun 01, 2019

Recipe Cooking Times Can Be Deceiving!

Often, they’re just a suggestion. Recipe writers can’t always be quite as precise as they’d prefer when they list cooking times in a recipe.  So many variables enter into the equation. This Spring, a friend’s daughter was making her first...

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May 25, 2019

8 Fruits and Vegetables that Don’t belong in your Refrigerator

How to keep your fruits and vegetables tasting as they should. In a perfect world we’d shop daily and prepare what we purchased for that evening’s meal.  But, we all know it’s just not that easy to get to the...

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May 18, 2019

How to set up a hot beverage station for your morning ‘brew’.

It’s so easy to create a place for coffee or tea in your kitchen. We all have our routines that we follow in the morning.  It might be that you jump up and head straight to the gym with just...

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