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Garden Sandwiches (aka Banh Mi)

My garden is growing like crazy these past few weeks. We’ve had some very hot, humid days and a few rain showers which is the perfect recipe for Michigan gardening goodness. I can’t believe I actually have a growing, producing garden. I’m rather ignorant in the ways of gardening, but with the help of my [...]

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the seductive peach

While my mom and I were canning peaches the other day, in between bites of juicy peach off the pit, I started thinking about the fruit of the original sin.  For some reason, we always attach an apple to that first sin in the Garden of Eden, but I’m not sure that’s quite right. Apples [...]

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An Ode to the Cold Salad

Oh cold salads. How I love you in the summers. How do I love you all? Let me count the ways. 1. You make summer parties a snap. Like a few weeks ago when The Narrator requested a family lunch after the triathlon on his birthday. I assembled you all a day or two ahead [...]

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Lentil Love

My kids are pretty good eaters. At my husband’s request, we don’t eat a lot of meat. In fact, he’d be perfectly fine if I never served meat ever again. My kids are good sports and they try most everything, and we eat some stuff that would be considered quite odd in normal households. Last [...]

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Rhubarb = Summer

Too bad the weather doesn’t feel like summer! The kids picked the first of some of Great-Grandma’s rhubarb this past week, and tonight I turned it into a Rhubarb Pudding Cake that is out of this world. It went so fast, I didn’t even get a picture of it! The tangy, sweet dish was a [...]

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