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EATS Reads 10 Delicious Book Picks
Sometimes serious, sometimes funny, all these books are fantastic reads! ts. Chocolat by Joanne Harris The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Fried Green Tomatoes and the Whistlestop Cafe by Fannie Flag Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel The Hundred Foot Journey by...
read moreLessons in the Garden
The trees are budding and the sprouts are in the windowsill, soon it will be time to plant our garden. Below is a brief history of my "gardening" life. Do you grow things to eat in the summer? What do you grow and why? I'd love to learn from your experiences! I grew...
read moreThe Great St. Paddy’s Day Inferno
St. Patrick’s Day at the McGuire’s —it was going to be grand! Five couples plus ourselves would gather in the dining room of our newly built home to enjoy some traditional Irish fare. It was our first real dinner party in the home that we had spent the previous year...
read moreSix Items Every Kitchen Needs (But Many Don’t Have)
Once you have the basics, here are the items that we find most useful for putting together fabulous meals in your own kitchen. If you are just beginning to stock your kitchen, there are some fairly obvious things that you need to have: pots, pans, measuring utensils,...
read moreEat Your Vegetables!?
We know that fruits and vegetables are all good for us, but are they equal? For many of us, it is almost a collective childhood memory: you’re sitting at the dinner table, on your plate is a portion of broccoli/spinach/carrots (or fill-in-the-vegetable). You’ve...
read moreThree Tasty and Simple Veggie Sides
Here are three veggie side dishes that we make on a regular basis. They are flavorful, but what we like most about them is that they are simple. With just a few fresh ingredients we can quickly prepare a hot vegetable side to go with dinner. Heat 1 tablespoon of olive...
read moreA Book for the Season and a Recipe for the Books
This is just one of the many beautiful illustrations in Cranberry Thanksgiving, a gem of a book that I had growing up. Maggie, Grandmother and Mr. Whiskers, warm by the hearth, decide to let the thieving Mr. Horace inside to share the last piece of pumpkin pie....
read moreEat Together! Why and How
Why eat together? When given the facts, the answer’s a no brainer: because it’s ALL GOOD NEWS when your family eats together. A simple Google search on the family meal turns up article upon article touting the benefits for families when they share meals together on a...
read moreHow I came to The Broccoli Philosophy
Some of my earliest food memories are of the nightly dinners my mother devotedly prepared for our family. I say devotedly because I don’t think she loved preparing these meals. She loved us, though, and when I was a young child Mom faithfully had a hot meal on the...
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