Cooking, Creating, and Everything in Between
Yum Perhaps it’s because I grew up in Pennsylvania. Perhaps it’s because when you are surrounded by German-descended people, you grow up eating foods like pork and sauerkraut and potato everything. Perhaps it’s because a warm, bacon-laden potato salad with…
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Yum It’s hard not to love potatoes. They are kind of like the best friend of the dinner table– grinning amicably beside anything from a gorgeous Sunday roast beef to an easy summer burger. They can be boiled, braised, baked,…
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Yum Every time I got to Cracker Barrel, I order the Mac and Cheese. There is just something so deliciously homey about the creamy, dreamy goodness that they spoon up on my plate. I always close my eyes for that first,…
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Yum It’s the middle of the dog days of summer. Here in Virginia it is viciously hot, and so muggy that it feels like God just decided to step out of the shower. My flowerbeds are gasping for mercy, no…
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Yum Growing up in the North, I was under the mistaken thought that all mac and cheese came from a pretty blue box. I didn’t even realize that there was another kind. The first time I tried baked macaroni and…
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Yum A wise person once said, “There is nothing in this world more motivating than cheese.” Ooooohhh . . . that is so true. It is very hard to resist anything oozing with cheese. You can save just about any…
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