Imagine this: It’s Sunday evening and you sit down at your computer to blab about another delicious thing. The “pretty” versions of said food are long gone (one ugly duckling left in the refrigerator). The sun has set. The post goes live in a few hours. And your pictures are blurry. Blurry, blurry messes, all of them. [Expert tip: don’t take
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Let me just be frank: I grew up on damn good jam. Yes, my mother insisted on having Welch’s grape in the fridge, but that market spoiled me rotten. The adult kid adores sour cherry and apricot preserves, full of luscious chunks of fruit. But Hero Forest Berry Preserves? That was THE STUFF peanut butter & jelly sandwiches were made
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I love a good challenge. Making recipes from an older cookbook, where oven temperatures, baking times, ingredient treatments are oft unmentioned, would be fit the bill. When I spied the Burwell General Store‘s Recipe Swap, I was game. This swap involves remaking recipes from the book “All-Day Singin’ and Dinner on the Ground.” Written in a time where all cookbook owners were more familiar
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Being an adult is hard. Being an adult in New York City is like Double Double, Animal Style hard – awesome, amazing, but holy hell does it challenge and overwhelm you. (Yeah, I’m another East Coast resident slightly obsessed with In n Out and insisted on using that phrase even if it didn’t make sense.) Lately, I ‘ve had some
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